Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Participants

Participants of the research were first-year English major students who attended language practice or academic skills classes. This choice of participants was feasible for three reasons. First, since it was hypothesised that creativity manifests itself in the language the participants use for solving the narrative tasks, more precisely in lexical diversity, I assumed that a relatively high level of proficiency is required to demonstrate this effect. Also, at the time when the study was conducted, first-year English majors were required to pass a proficiency exam at the end of the second semester, which contained a task that is quite similar to one of the oral narrative tasks used in the study. Therefore, the findings of my research study would have born direct relevance for the exam. The third reason for choosing this population was that since I taught first-year students, they were easily accessible for me. The fact that I needed a large amount of data from each individual made accessibility an important consideration as well.

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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