Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Aptitude

The descriptive statistics presented in Tables 13 and 14 about the language aptitude test used in the study reveal that the research sample, that is, the group of English majors, have the highest score when compared to university students or university students with at least one language examination. Although the difference between their average and that of the latter group is not high, standard deviation figures indicate that the group of language majors is much more homogeneous as far as language aptitude is concerned. It seems, therefore, that this group of first-year English majors can be characterised by a high level of language aptitude, and this group is quite homogeneous with regard to this individual variable.

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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