Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Introduction

This chapter is concerned with establishing the theoretical background of the research study presented in this monograph. The goal of the following review of literature is to provide a detailed account of those concepts and constructs which constitute the main focus of my investigations: language aptitude, creativity, and oral narrative tasks. The chapter starts with an attempt to define individual differences, followed by a concise overview of language aptitude. Next, the construct of creativity is discussed in detail, while the last topic of this section is concerned with tasks. After a short introduction to task-based language teaching, tasks are defined and task types are described. An overview of task performance measures is provided along with a summary of findings in connection with oral narrative tasks. This chapter is concluded by identifying points of interplay, substantiating why and how creativity is thought to be relevant for performance on oral narrative tasks based on information available in the literature.

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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