Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Chapter 1: Introduction1

The most fundamental difference between learning a first (L1) and a second (L2) language lies in learners’ rate of success. While under normal circumstances all children manage to acquire their mother tongues perfectly, this can hardly be said to be true when someone is learning a L2. Research into individual differences (IDs) aims to identify and describe those important differences between learners that can be held accountable for this well-known observation. There are many variables, like motivation or intelligence, which originated in the field of psychology and have been researched extensively within applied linguistics, but there are still other important ones, like creativity, whose possible contribution to second language acquisition (SLA) has been largely unexplored.

Stories students tell

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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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