Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Statistical analysis

Data deriving from the analytical procedures were analysed using a version of the software SPSS for Windows which was current at the time of the completion of the study. With the help of this software, descriptive statistics (means, standard deviations) were calculated to shed light on characteristics of the sample, whereas correlation coefficients were used to describe the features of instruments. Independent samples t tests were used for examining the two versions of the two oral narrative task variants, and paired samples t tests were employed to compare participants’ performance on the two oral narrative tasks differing in cognitive complexity. In order to detect relationships between variables, Spearman rank order correlations were calculated between ID variables: creativity and language aptitude, language proficiency, and task performance measures. Unfortunately, the relatively small sample size did not permit the use of more sophisticated statistical procedures.

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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