Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Proficiency tests

Table 16 presents the participants’ language proficiency measures: the scores they received on the TOEFL-PBT, and their scores on the standardised C-test. The maximum scores that could be achieved on the Listening Comprehension and the Structure and Written Expression sections are 68 points, and it is 67 points for the Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension section. The maximum total score on a TOEFL-PBT test is 677 points (Phillips, 1989). Members of the research sample scored highest on the Structure and Written Expression section and lowest on the Listening Comprehension section; their mean total score was 571.31 points. The highest possible score for the C-test was 63 points, and the mean score of the participants was 48.46 on this test.

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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