Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Oral narrative task variants

Task 1, that is the cartoon strip task, was the cognitively less complex oral narrative task used in the study; versions “A” and “B” (see Appendices E–F) involved telling two completely different stories. 21 students were given version “A”, the shipwrecked man story, whereas 20 students received version “B”, the girl and wizard story. In order to decide whether we can consider the two versions as variants of the same task, the means of various output measures were compared using independent samples t tests. Before performing the t tests, there is a need to check distributions of the variables using an F test. Since the F test did not produce significant results in either of the cases, thus indicating the comparability of distributions, the t tests could safely be performed. Table 18 reveals that there were no statistically significant differences between the two versions of the task for any of the output measures examined.

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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