Ágnes Albert

Stories students tell

Creativity and oral narrative task performance of English majors in Hungary


Correlations of creativity and aptitude

Table 27 presents correlations of the different parts of the aptitude test, and the three relevant measures of creativity: average originality, creative fluency, and relative flexibility for each of the tasks of the creativity test. On the verbal tasks, one aspect of creativity, creative fluency, seemed to be negatively related to language aptitude as it had negative correlations with the Hidden Sounds subtest in the case of Unusual Uses (rs = –.34), and with the Language Analysis subtest in the case of Remote Associations (rs = –.33). The tendencies portrayed by the figural tasks are different from those suggested by the verbal ones. Although similarly to the verbal tasks creative fluency correlated negatively with both the Hidden Sounds (rs = –.50) and the Language Analysis (rs = –.31) subtasks of HUNLAT in the Picture Completion task, surprisingly, there seemed to be a significant positive correlation between relative flexibility and the total language aptitude score (rs = .32) on this particular aptitude test task. In a similar manner, the average originality score correlated positively with the total language aptitude score on the Circles task (rs = .38).

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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