The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance
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In: Language Learning - a journal of research in language studies, Vol. 62, No. 2, 06.2012, p. 439-472.
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T1 - The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance
AU - Trebits, Anna
AU - Kormos, Judit
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, lexical variety, syntactic complexity, and accuracy of performance in two types of written and spoken narrative tasks. We also addressed the question of how narrative performance varies in tasks of different cognitive complexity in the written and spoken modes. Our findings indicate a complex interaction between aptitude components and task performance under different conditions. The components of aptitude that seemed to be most strongly related to the complexity and accuracy of production were inductive ability and grammatical sensitivity. The results also show that in writing the participants used more varied vocabulary than in speech, but their performance was similar in terms of syntactic complexity.
AB - The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, lexical variety, syntactic complexity, and accuracy of performance in two types of written and spoken narrative tasks. We also addressed the question of how narrative performance varies in tasks of different cognitive complexity in the written and spoken modes. Our findings indicate a complex interaction between aptitude components and task performance under different conditions. The components of aptitude that seemed to be most strongly related to the complexity and accuracy of production were inductive ability and grammatical sensitivity. The results also show that in writing the participants used more varied vocabulary than in speech, but their performance was similar in terms of syntactic complexity.
KW - Culture and Space
KW - Englisch
KW - Englisch als Fremdsprache
KW - Englisch an der Universität
KW - Englisch im Unterricht
KW - Englisch-Unterricht
KW - Aptitude
KW - Individual differences
KW - Second language writing
KW - Speech production
KW - Written and spoken tasks
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860670068&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00695.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00695.x
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 62
SP - 439
EP - 472
JO - Language Learning - a journal of research in language studies
JF - Language Learning - a journal of research in language studies
SN - 1467-9922
IS - 2
ER -