Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Creativity test

Since the construct of creativity seems to be too complex and therefore almost impossible to define for research purposes, I opted for an operational definition of creativity. Therefore, creativity was defined as the person’s ability to come up with a large number of novel and statistically rare solutions on a given task and was operationalised as the total score achieved on a standardised creativity test (Barkóczi & Zétényi, 1981). Also, since the standardised test used in the study measures three distinct facets of creativity: average originality, the ratio of total originality and total creative fluency scores measuring the ability to produce unusual ideas; relative flexibility, the ratio of total flexibility and total creative fluency measuring the ability to produce a wide variety of ideas; and creative fluency, the total number of responses measuring the ability to produce a large number of ideas (Baer, 1993), these sub-scores were also used to identify individuals creative in one of these sub-fields (see a more detailed description of the measures used in section 4.7.1).

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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