The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance.

Kormos, Judit and Trebits, Anna (2012) The role of task complexity, modality and aptitude in narrative task performance. Language Learning, 62 (2). pp. 439-472. ISSN 1467-9922

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Abstract

The study reported in this paper investigated the relationship between components of aptitude and the fluency, accuracy, syntactic complexity and lexical variety 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 accuracy and complexity of production were deductive 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.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Language Learning
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/englishlanguageandlinguistics
Subjects:
?? aptitudewritten and spoken tasks speech production second language writing individual differencesenglish language and linguisticseducationlinguistics and languagelanguage and linguisticsp philology. linguistics ??
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34247
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Deposited On:
20 Sep 2010 12:34
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Yes
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Published
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01 Feb 2024 00:25