Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Creativity test

If we examine the mean and standard deviation figures of the individual variable of creativity (see Tables 9 and 10), they show that the means of the first-year language major sample tend to be considerably higher than the corresponding means of the national standard for high school graduates (Barkóczi & Zétényi, 1981). The only exception is relative flexibility since the mean value on the Remote Association task is M = .69 (SD = .24) for the research sample, whereas the national standard is M = .73 (SD = .27). Relative flexibility on the Unusual Uses and Circles tasks is same for the research and the national sample, M = .78 (SD = .20; SD = .24) and M = .61 (SD = .17; SD = .24) respectively, with higher standard deviation for the national sample in both cases. Although on average standard deviation scores also tend to be somewhat higher for the research sample, this difference is not as salient as the differences in the average figures. The reason why scores achieved on the different subtests and not composite scores are used in Tables 9 and 10 is that only these figures were available for the national sample (Barkóczi & Zétényi, 1981).

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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