Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Procedure

Data collection was carried out on a voluntary basis, after the ending of the participants’ academic writing course. Those wishing to take part in the study made an appointment with the researcher in pairs or threes, and completed one to three tasks depending on the amount of time they had; the majority of the students completed two tasks. Altogether 22 tasks were completed by the participants: eight single-picture, seven picture sequence and seven comic strip. The pairs performing the tasks were interviewed together after the completion of each task. The task completion and the proceeding post-task interview were audio-recorded with the participants’ consent for later analysis.

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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