Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Creativity

When examining the measures of the ID variable creativity (see Tables 9 and 10), figures suggest that the first-year language major sample can probably be characterised by a higher level of creativity than the national standard for high school graduates (Barkóczi & Zétényi, 1981). This is not surprising in light of the fact that usually the best high school graduates become university students. Standard deviation figures, however, do not reflect a more homogeneous sample in the case of the university population. Therefore, we can conclude that although participants of the study were probably more creative on average than the Hungarian population with a high school diploma, individuals with high and low creativity are both represented among them.

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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