Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Introduction

This chapter presents findings concerning the participants’ task-performance on the oral narrative tasks differing in cognitive complexity. Altogether four different oral narrative tasks were used in the study, supposedly two cognitively less and two cognitively more complex ones. In order to analyse whether the tasks used were of two different types or not, descriptive statistics for the two different versions of each task were presented and means were compared with the help of independent t tests. Since the research design necessitated the use of four tasks, it was important to establish whether these can be considered as variants of two narrative task types, cognitively less and more complex, or not.

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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