Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Oral narrative tasks

In my study I adopted Skehan’s (1996) comprehensive definition of tasks which states that a task is “an activity in which: meaning is primary; there is some relationship to the real world; task completion has some priority; and the assessment of task performance is in terms of task outcome” (p. 38). In line with this definition, successful task completion involved telling a story on the basis of the pictures provided, where a story was supposed to consist of at least two temporally ordered narrative clauses, and it was expected to contain at least four of the six stages of a fully formed narrative (Labov, 1972): the orientation, the complicating action, the evaluation, and the resolution.

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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