Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Language aptitude test

Table 13 presents descriptive statistics for the aptitude test (HUNLAT; Ottó, 2002) for the population of my study, first-year English majors. In order to aid the interpretation of figures, Table 14 provides the same statistics for first-year university students and first-year university students with at least one language examination respectively (Ottó & Nikolov, 2003). When compared to the national sample of university students, it can be seen that first-year English majors seem to have considerably higher language aptitude (M = 64.60 for English majors, M = 55.79 for university students), and their aptitude varies within a much more limited range (SD = 6.68 for English majors and SD = 11.61 for university students). As can be expected, first-year university students with at least one language exam resemble the language major sample much more (M = 61.03), although the variance displayed by their scores (SD = 10.24) is still greater than that of language majors.

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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