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EXTROVERSION/INTROVERSION PERSONALITY TYPE AND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: A CASE STUDY OF IRAQI EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Khalida Muhsen Hassan, Prof.Dr. Salam Hamid Abbas

Volume: 10 Issue: 1 2020

Abstract:

Personality is one of the most essential factors that have an impact on foreign language learning. Different personality types can be observed in students' developing different learning styles for themselves, which denotes the idea that there is a close connection between students' personality, and the style and the strategy that they develop to learn and succeed on the other. Extroversion / introversion, in particular, is one of four pairs of personality types which are reported to have a prior significance in language learning studies. Accordingly, foreign language teachers should know more about the students and increase their awareness of their students' personal differences in language classrooms. This will help them understand and appreciate the fact that individuals within a learning group may have different personality types and this requires the employment of varied classroom dynamics, activities, and strategies.

DOI: http://doi.org/10.37648/ijrssh.v10i01.007

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