Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Research questions

Changes in language instruction which entail greater reliance on activities that necessitate the use of imagination on the learner’s part suggest that the relevance of a new ID variable, creativity, which has been unexplored so far, should be examined. Although research conducted on ID variables in the past tended to concentrate on the relationship of these variables with global measures of attainment, that is, language proficiency, a current trend is to examine the effect of individual differences on task performance (see for example Dewaele & Furnham, 1999; Dörnyei & Kormos, 2000; Kawauchi, 2005; Kim & Tracy-Ventura, 2011; Kormos & Trebits, 2011, 2012). This interest in tasks, observable both in the area of language teaching and testing, can be ascribed to the assumptions that transacting tasks engages naturalistic acquisitional mechanisms and drives development forward (Long, 2014). Moreover, matching task features to the characteristics of those situations where the learner is likely to use the language enhances the validity of tests. In the light of this, there seems to be a need to study possible connections between learner creativity and performance on tasks.

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.

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