Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


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In order to make the interpretation of TOEFL scores easier, it should be noted that most universities in the USA require 550–600 points for admission to their undergraduate programs (Muniz, 2017). It can be seen that although the mean of our sample is within this range, standard deviation figures suggest that there were some students whose proficiency was far below or above this level. It seems that the proficiency level of the sample ranged from intermediate to advanced. Having examined the means of different subtests it can be concluded that the Structure and Written Expression part proved to be the easiest for the research sample, whereas the Listening Comprehension part was the most difficult. Since the participants were language majors, a heightened awareness for grammar is understandable, although this result might also indicate that grammar is probably still emphasised at the expense of communication in our schools, as suggested by the listening scores.

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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