Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of creativity and proficiency

As the multimethod–multitrait analysis has shown that the different tasks which comprise the creativity test do not seem to measure the same construct, correlations between various measures (average originality, creative fluency, and relative flexibility) of the different tasks of the creativity test and the TOEFL and C-test scores were correlated for each of the four tasks. Table 25 presents the correlation coefficients. It seems that students’ performance on the non-verbal, figural tasks of the creativity test (Circles and Picture Completion) was unrelated to students’ language proficiency measures. In the case of the Unusual Uses task, relative flexibility correlated significantly with the Listening Comprehension part of TOEFL (rs = .31), and with the C-test score (rs = .38). Results of the Remote Association task indicated that average originality correlated with the Vocabulary and Reading Comprehension part of TOEFL (rs = .31). Therefore, in the two verbal creativity tasks that showed some connection with language proficiency two different aspects of creativity, relative flexibility and average originality, proved to be relevant.

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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