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Leeming, Paul – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2019
Learning language in the classroom often means interacting with peers in small groups. There is a growing body of empirical research highlighting the factors that have an impact on student interaction and an increasing focus on the social context. This article aims to broaden the focus of research by considering the influence of emergent…
Descriptors: Task Analysis, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Alavinia, Parviz; Hassanlou, Adel – English Language Teaching, 2014
The current study was aimed at investigating the relationship between academic Iranian EFL learners' extroversion/introversion and their writing performance. The participants of the study were some 52 BA learners majoring in English language literature in Urmia and Tabriz state universities. The chosen sample comprised of both males and females…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, Extraversion Introversion
Salmani Nodoushan, Mohammad Ali – Online Submission, 2011
Language learning is a complex process that is controlled or influenced by a host of linguistic and non-linguistic factors. Some of these factors are the main concerns of psychologists rather than linguists. Ever since psychology began to develop in the 20th century, more and more individual characteristics were identified and defined. Eysenck's…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Individual Characteristics, Personality Traits, Interviews
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Alavinia, Parviz; Sameei, Abdolraoof – English Language Teaching, 2012
The present study was implemented to investigate the possible relationship between introversion/extroversion and the listening ability of intermediate Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners by taking into account their gender, age, and grades of study. A total of 120 Intermediate learners (62 males and 58 females) studying at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hajimohammadi, Reza; Makundan, Jayakaran – English Language Teaching, 2011
To investigate the impact of self-correction method as an alternative to the traditional teacher-correction method, on the one side, and to evaluate the impact of personality traits of Extroversion/Introversion, on the other side, on the writing progress of the pre-intermediate learners three null-hypotheses were proposed. In spite of students…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Berry, Vivien – 1994
Two studies of individuals' oral second language performance in interaction with extraverts and introverts are reported here. The first, described briefly, investigated the effects of homogeneous (extravert/extravert or introvert/introvert) vs. heterogeneous pairings on oral performance in interviews. Subjects were 36 women students in a Japanese…
Descriptors: College Students, English for Academic Purposes, Extraversion Introversion, Foreign Countries