Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Language aptitude test (HUNLAT)

Ottó (2002) developed and standardised (Ottó & Nikolov, 2003) a language aptitude test for Hungarian learners; therefore, I used the Magyar Egységes Nyelvérzékmérő-teszt (Hungarian Language Aptitude Test, HUNLAT) in order to measure the language aptitude of the participants. The test consists of four sections: in the section “Hidden Sounds”, respondents are required to identify sounds and connect these to their orthographic symbols. The “Language Analysis” section is a translation task, while in the “Words in Sentences” part, respondents have to identify the grammatical function of certain words. In the last, “Vocabulary Learning” section Swahili words and their Hungarian translation are to be memorised then tested. Sample tasks from HUNLAT can be found in Appendix L.

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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