A Study on personality as a Variable in english Langauge Classroom

Abstract

The current research is “A Study on Personality as a Variable in EnglishLanguage Classroom”. As the importance of the English language classroomcan hardly be exaggerated, this work attempts to find out personality traits ofthe students and personality as a variable in English language classroom fromthe teacher’s view point. For these purposes, a sample of 60 students and 4teachers was selected from two higher secondary schools. Analyzing the datacollected through personality traits survey questionnaire and the interviewsheet; it has been found that most of the learners had extrovert personality andthey enjoyed learning English through the active interaction andenjoyed to askquestions in class. Furthermore, almost all the teachers opined that they caredabout different learning styles of their students and personality is a significantrelated variable in students’ achievement. This study is divided into four main chapters. The first chapter encompassesintroduction of the study. It incorporated general background, first and secondlanguage, English as a second language classroom, individual differences,personality, approaches of studying personality, theoriesof studyingpersonality, personality assessment, extroversion/introversion, review of therelated literature, objectives of the study and significance of the studysequentially. The second chapter deals with the methodology used for the studydescribed interms of the sources of data collection, tools used for collectingdata, procedures of data collection, limitations of the study and procedures ofdata analysis. The third chapter is the presentation of the analysis andinterpretation of the data. The datawere analyzed and interpreted by usingsimple statistical tool of percentage and average. Moreover, the analysis of thelearner responses and the teachers’ views has been done under differentsignificant and inclusive themes. The fourth chapter includes the findings andrecommendations of the study. Furthermore, this chapter includes some of thesuggestions to extrovert learners, introvert learners and language teachers too.Finally, but foremost it presents some guidelines for further researchers whowantto carryout study on this very topic. The concluding chapter is followedby the references and appendices that are used in the thesis.