Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Comparing the tasks differing in cognitive complexity

After examining performance on the two task types separately, it is interesting to see whether differences can be observed on the cognitively less and more complex task regarding the output measures used. Paired samples t tests were used to compare the means of students’ performance on Task 1 and Task 2 (see Table 22). Results indicated that students talked more, they used a larger number of narrative clauses, and they were more accurate on Task 2, the cognitively more complex task. The larger number of narrative clauses is probably a result of the fact that students talked more on this task, as the difference in the ratio of narrative clauses is statistically not significant. The significantly higher number of words uttered might be a consequence of task design; while students were given a complete story in six pictures in Task 1, the six pictures in Task 2 were not connected; they simply showed story ingredients. Probably more cognitive effort and also a higher number of words were needed to connect and make sense of these unrelated pictures.

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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