Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Measures of language aptitude

Since the aptitude test used in this study is protected by copyright, the participants’ answers, recorded on answer sheets, were analysed by Ottó, the author of the aptitude test. Having computed the scores, he sent the results to me. This way all the four traditionally measured components of language aptitude (Carroll & Sapon, 1959) were calculated for each respondent: phonetic coding ability, inductive language learning ability, grammatical sensitivity, and rote learning ability.

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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