Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Conclusion: The relevance of creativity and language aptitude for learner performance on tasks

Having reviewed the literature on language aptitude, creativity and tasks separately, I will now attempt to highlight possible points of interaction. Since language aptitude is a well-established and frequently researched variable in our field, whose positive effects on language achievement have long been established (Dörnyei & Skehan, 2003), it can logically be expected that similar beneficial effects will be demonstrated in connection with oral narrative task performance. A more intriguing issue is whether the theoretically plausible link between language aptitude and creativity (Grigorenko et al., 2000) can also be supported by empirical data. However, since the novelty of this study lies in investigating creativity as a potentially important ID variable that might be relevant to solving language tasks, I will primarily concentrate on possible links between creativity and oral narrative task performance here.

Stories students tell

Tartalomjegyzék


Kiadó: Akadémiai Kiadó

Online megjelenés éve: 2021

ISBN: 978 963 454 669 6

This monograph presents research conducted in connection with the relationships between individual difference variables, like creativity and language aptitude, and the oral narrative task performance of first year English major university students. Changes in language instruction that involve greater reliance on learners' creativity imply that researching creativity as a potentially important individual variable should be imminent. The prominence of tasks in the classroom and in tests suggests that tasks and their decisive features leading to differences in task performance should also be investigated. The findings of the monograph contribute to a deeper understanding of how different individual differences contribute to oral narrative task performance on the one hand, and on the other, they shed light on the differential effects of task complexity. Therefore, the monograph might be of interest for researchers, course book writers and practising teachers alike.

Hivatkozás: https://mersz.hu/albert-stories-students-tell//

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