Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Characteristics of the oral narrative tasks differing in cognitive complexity

Having seen that there are no statistically significant differences between versions “A” and “B” of Tasks 1 and 2, data from the two variants of the same task were merged. Table 20 contains data on the intercorrelations of the different output measures on Task 1, the cartoon strip task. The correlation matrix shows that some output measures tended to change together, and there were also some independent ones. Fluency and one measure of lexical variety showing the ratio of rare words (P_Lex lambda) seem to be independent measures as they have no significant correlations with any other measure. The ratio of narrative clauses seems to be independent as well, as its only significant and relatively low correlation is with the number of narrative clauses (rs = .35), whereas syntactic complexity only moderately correlates with one measure of lexical variety showing the type-token ratio (D index) (rs = .34). The remaining four measures tended to change together with three other measures each: accuracy correlated with the quantity of talk (rs = .38), with the D index (rs = .55), and with the number of narrative clauses (rs = .31). Apart from accuracy, the quantity of talk also correlated with the D index (rs = .37) and with the number of narrative clauses (rs = .79).

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.

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