Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Introduction

This section of the monograph presents those results of the study which concern participants’ language proficiency and their individual differences in abilities, such as creativity and language aptitude. In an attempt to provide a detailed picture of the research sample and shed light on the characteristics of the measuring instruments, first descriptive statistics for each of the variables are provided, followed by different correlational analyses. The first variable examined is creativity; means and standard deviations of the sample are compared to the national standard provided for high school graduates. Besides intercorrelations of the different measures of creativity for the whole test, a multitrait–multimethod analysis of the creativity test across the four subtasks is also provided. Descriptive statistics and intercorrelations of the different measures are presented both for the language aptitude test (HUNLAT) and for TOEFL test scores. In the case of HUNLAT, scores calculated for members of the sample are compared to results of first-year university students and first-year university students with at least one language exam (Ottó & Nikolov, 2003). The presentation of the results is then followed by a detailed discussion of the findings, in which characteristics of the research sample and the tests used to assess individual differences are analysed in detail.

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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