Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Oral narrative task variants

The oral narrative tasks used in the study were designed to be of two different types, a cognitively more and a cognitively less complex one. Since the oral narrative tasks were performed in pairs, this necessitated that two versions of each task type should be employed. Thus, altogether four different oral narrative tasks were used in the study. In order to establish whether the tasks that were intended as variants were similar enough to be considered as variants of the same task, independent samples t tests were performed, the results of which can be found in Tables 18 and 19. The means of each output variable measured were compared for the two variants of the same task, and no statistically significant differences were found between them for either of the two task types. Therefore, it can be concluded that despite the fact that the cartoon strips presented different stories and the pictures to be used for the cognitively more complex tasks showed different story ingredients, they can be considered as variants of the same task, and data deriving from them can be merged for further analysis.

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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