Investigating the Relationship between Teacher’s Thinking vs. Feeling Personality Type and Iranian Pre-Intermediate EFL Learners’ Speaking Skill

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Islamic Azad University-South Tehran branch

Abstract

This study was an attempt to investigate the relationship between teachers' personality type (feeling vs. thinking) and speaking skill of pre- intermediate EFL students in Iranian context. Twelve teachers and forty eight students from a local language institute participated in the study. The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), an instrument based on Jung’s personality theory, was taken from teachers and students were administered Preliminary English Test (PET) interview. SPSS was used to calculate the required analyses. The results showed a statistically significant positive relationship between teacher’s’ personality type and learners’ speaking skill. It was also indicated that there is a statistically significant difference between speaking skill of learners taught by feeling teachers vs. thinking teachers. In fact students in the feeling group had higher speaking scores than their counterparts in the thinking group.

Keywords

References

Albritton, S. C., & Pearman, R. R. (1997). I’m Not Crazy, I’m Just Not You. California: Davies-black.
Brown, H. D. (2007). Principles of Language Learning and Teaching  (5th  ed.). New York: Pearson Longman.         
Garcia, P., Holland, G., & Kupczynski, L. (2011). Impact of Teacher Personality Styles on Academic Excellence of Secondary Students. National Forum of Teacher Education, 21(3), 1-8.
Harmer, J. (2007).The Practice of English Language Teaching (4th ed.). Cambridge: Pearson Longman.
Keshavarz, K., Kiani, Z., Rakhshani, F., & Sepehri, Z. (2013).Effect of Personality on Learning Language.ICT for Language Learning. Retrieved fromhttp://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL2013/common/download/ paper
      -pdf/287-MTL19-FP-Sepehri-ICT2013.pdf
Lawrence, G. (1993). People types and tiger stripes (3rded.). Florida: Center for Applications of Psychological Type.
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies
Volume 5, Issue 2 - Serial Number 2
December 2013
Pages 123-136

Files

Share

How to cite

Statistics