Language learning, 2012-06, Vol.62 (2), p.439-472
2012
Details
- Autor(en) / Beteiligte
- Titel
- The Role of Task Complexity, Modality, and Aptitude in Narrative Task Performance
- Ist Teil von
- Language learning, 2012-06, Vol.62 (2), p.439-472
- Ort / Verlag
- Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing Inc
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2012
- Link zum Volltext
- Quelle
- Wiley Online Library
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- 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.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0023-8333, 1467-9922eISSN: 1467-9922DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2012.00695.xTitel-ID: cdi_pascalfrancis_primary_25889191
- Format
- –
- Schlagworte
- Adults. Performance, acquisition, aptitude, Cognitive ability, Correlation, Difficulty Level, individual differences, language, Language Aptitude, Language Fluency, language processing, Language Variation, Linguistic Performance, Linguistics, narrative, Narratives, Oral Language, Production and comprehension processes, Psycholinguistics, Psychology of language, Role, Second Language Learning, second language writing, speech production, Syntax, Task Analysis, Vocabulary, Vocabulary development, written and spoken tasks, Written Language