Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Establishing the characteristics of the narrative genre

The characteristics of the oral narrative genre were studied by a number of authors, focusing on different types of narratives both written and oral. It was Labov, however, who first offered a comprehensive, yet relatively easily manageable framework for the analysis of spoken narratives. In his influential book entitled Language in the inner city, Labov (1972) defined “a minimal narrative as a sequence of two clauses which are temporally ordered: that is, a change in their order will result in a change in the temporal sequence of the original semantic interpretation” (p. 360). According to Labov, the skeleton of any narrative consists of narrative clauses, which are temporarily ordered independent clauses connected by temporal junctures. Subordinate clauses cannot serve as narrative clauses, as it is possible to change their order without changing the original semantic interpretation. Those independent clauses that do not have a fixed temporal order, that is they are not joined by temporal junctures, do not qualify as narrative clauses for the same reason; a change in their order does not necessarily bring about altered semantic interpretation.

Stories students tell

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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.

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