Narrative Tasks, Individual Differences, and Foreign Language Learning

This monograph summarizes studies conducted in Hungary using narrative tasks in English as a foreign language. It investigates discourse and psycholinguistic features of narratives, as well as how individual differences influence performance. The author discusses the role of cognitive and affective variables in task performance and their impact on linguistic development. The book is intended for researchers and students in the field of second language acquisition and for course-book writers, material developers, curriculum designers, language teachers and testers.