ERIC Number: EJ686954
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004-Mar
Pages: 34
Abstractor: Author
Reference Count: 82
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ISSN: ISSN-0023-8333
Creativity and Narrative Task Performance: An Exploratory Study
Albert, Agnes; Kormos, Judit
Language Learning, v54 n2 p277-310 Mar 2004
The aim of this article is to investigate the effect of creativity on performance in oral narrative tasks. Participants in the study were Hungarian learners whose creativity was measured with a standardized creativity test. We examined the relationships among 3 aspects of creativity--originality, flexibility, and creative fluency--and different measures of task performance. The findings suggest that the 3 components of creativity have a differential effect on the measures of task performance. Creative fluency was positively correlated with the quantity of talk. Originality was negatively related to the quantity of talk, and positive correlations were found between originality and the complexity of narratives. The magnitude of the correlations indicates that creativity affects participants output in narrative tasks only moderately.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity Tests, Creativity, Interpersonal Communication, Personal Narratives, Oral Language
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Language: English
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