Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Picture sequence task

Post-task interviews revealed that respondents generally liked the picture sequence task; they found it interesting and challenging, but they also added critical remarks about the quality of the drawings and the limited possibility of interpretation. The majority of the participants were familiar with the task; they were able to recall the instruction and judged it comprehensible. With regard to preparation time, their opinions varied: some respondents found the five minutes planning time adequate, while others thought it either too long or too short, which is rather surprising in light of the fact that none of them spent five minutes on preparation. The respondents attributed a number of different purposes to the task; they thought it might be used for assessing language proficiency, creativity, imagination, logical thinking, and the ability to produce a narrative. The respondents’ remarks suggested that although the picture sequence task as a type of oral narrative task is perceived as having some face validity, the task content, the actual pictures, might be worth experimenting with or even changing.

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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