The impact of personality traits on the writing performance of Iranian EFL learners  

Oleh:

Soleimani, Mohammad Mehdi ; Daryabari, Mahmoud Reza

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Asian ESP Journal vol. 6 no. 2 (2010), page 93-106.
Topik: Introversion; extroversion; gender; CALP; BICS; writing ability
Fulltext: Untitled5.pdf (544.44KB)

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This study investigates the impact of language learners’ personality on the successful execution of academically-oriented language tasks. The rationale for undertaking this inquiry was to test whether the personality type, i.e., introversion vs. extroversion, had an impact on the learners’ success at accomplishing writing tasks. Since writing skill depends highly upon the learners’ cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), the students’ composition scores were identified as an indication of their ability to execute academically-oriented language tasks. To achieve the objectives of the study, a total of 92 Iranian EFL students took a TOEFL test of English language proficiency. Based on TOEFL scores, 63 students were selected to take the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) and to write a composition in English. The results revealed that extroverted language learners outperformed introverts on doing academically-oriented language tasks. This finding contradicted Griffiths’s (1991) claim that introverted learners will do better than extroverts at developing cognitive academic language abilities.

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