Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Conclusion

On the basis of the findings presented in this chapter, it can be concluded that the four oral narrative tasks used in the study seem to belong to two distinct types differing in cognitive complexity. Correlational analyses performed on the two task types separately suggest that global language proficiency might be more influential when students solve a cognitively less complex task, whereas other factors, like individual differences, tend to play a greater role in the cognitively more complex task. This finding and similar results reported by Robinson (2007b) seem to provide empirical evidence for one of the claims of the Cognition Hypothesis (Robinson, 2001c, 2003, 2005b). They substantiate the assumption that ID variables play a greater role in performance on cognitively more complex tasks.

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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