探索创造力与任务难度不同的口头叙述型任务的相关性

论文摘要

创造力作为一项非常重要并且十分复杂的个人能力从20世纪以来已被众多心理学家进行了多方位的研究和探索。但是关于创造力在第二语言习得的过程中有什么作用,它与第二语言习得成功与否是否有一定关系,目前还缺乏详实的研究。尤其是第二语言习得中的口头叙述型任务产出和创造力之间的相关关系,目前的研究还处于探索阶段。本文主要研究了创造力和口头叙述型任务之间在任务难度不同的情况下的相关关系。研究问题是:(1)在给定两个任务难度不同的情况下创造力和口头叙述型任务产出之间存在何种相关关系?(2)在任务难度不同的情况下创造力和口头叙述型任务产出之间的关系有何不同?(3)在任务难度不同的情况下学习者的口头叙述型任务产出是否存在显著差异?实验受试是来自重庆工商大学30名非英语专业二年级本科生。受试被要求在至少相隔两周的情况下完成两组具有不同任务难度的口头叙述型任务。随后再使用TTCT进行创造力的测试。所有数据都采用SPSS11.5统计软件进行了分析。实验结果显示:在两项任务中,谈话数量和创造力流利性之间均存在正相关关系;在任务难度较大的情况下,谈话数量和原创性之间,词汇广度和创造力流利性之间,词汇广度和原创性之间存在正相关关系;叙述结构和创造力流利性之间,叙述结构和原创性之间存在负相关关系。研究结果表明,受试者创造力的某些方面和口头叙述型任务产出之间确实存在一定的相关性。这种相关性在任务难度增大的情况下表现得尤为明显。并且在任务难度不同的情况下,受试者的口头叙述型任务产出各标准之间也存在显著差异。

论文目录

• 中文摘要
• ABSTRACT
• CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION
• 1.1 RESEARCH RATIONALE
• 1.2 RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND SIGNIFICANCE
• 1.3 ORGANIZATION OF THE DISSERTATION
• CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW
• 2.1 RESEARCHES ON CREATIVITY
• 2.1.1 The main approaches to the study of human creativity
• 2.1.2 The creativity to be examined in the study
• 2.1.3 The three components of creativity involved in this study
• 2.1.4 Summary
• 2.2 MEASURE OF CREATIVITY
• 2.2.1 A brief review on the measure of creativity
• 2.2.2 Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking （TTCT）
• 2.2.3 Summary
• 2.3 PREVIOUS STUDIES ON CREATIVITY IN THE EFL CONTEXT
• 2.4 TASKS IN THE SECOND LANGUAGE RESEARCHES
• 2.4.1 Definition of task in the SLA context
• 2.4.2 Oral narrative tasks
• 2.5 FIVE MEASURES OF THE ORAL NARRATIVE TASK PERFORMANCE INVOLVED IN THE STUDY
• 2.6 RESEARCHES ON THE TASK COMPLEXITY
• 2.6.1 Three facets concerning sequencing tasks
• 2.6.2 Measure of task complexity
• 2.7 THE POSSIBLE RELEVANCE OF CREATIVITY AND THE ORAL NARRATIVE TASK PERFORMANCE
• 2.8 TASK COMPLEXITY IN THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND THE ORAL NARRATIVE TASK PERFORMANCE
• 2.9 SUMMARY
• CHAPTER THREE THE PRESENT STUDY
• 3.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES
• 3.2 METHOD
• 3.2.1 Subjects
• 3.2.2 Materials
• 3.2.3 Procedures
• 3.3 SCORING FOR THE RESULTS
• 3.3.1 Scoring for the creativity test
• 3.3.2 Scoring for the oral narrative task performance
• CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
• 4.1 RESULTS
• 4.1.1 Descriptive statistics for all variables
• 4.1.2 Pearson correlation coefficients for creativity and the oral narrative task performance
• 4.1.3 Results of paired-samples t-tests
• 4.1.4 Summary
• 4.2 DISCUSSION ON THE FINDINGS
• 4.2.1 The correlations between creative fluency and measures of the oral narrative task performance
• 4.2.2 The correlations between originality and measures of the oral narrative task performance
• 4.2.3 The correlations between elaboration and measures of the oral narrative task performance
• 4.2.4 Accuracy and complexity
• 4.2.5 The task complexity in both tasks
• 4.2.6 Summary on the findings
• CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION
• 5.1 CONCLUSIONS
• 5.2 IMPLICATIONS
• 5.3 LIMITATIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• REFERENCES
• APPENDIX
• Ⅰ MATERIALS USED IN BOTH TASKS
• Ⅱ RAW DATA
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