Personality factors

Personality factors

1. Risk - taking / Inhibition

   • Helpful for rapid progress in an L2
   • Self- conciousness increases = greater inhibition

2. Anxiety

   • State anxiety
     • Temporary
   • Situation - specific anxiety
     • Specific situational context
   • Trait anxiety
     • Permanent personality feature

3. Tolerance of ambiguity

   • Necessary quality for a good learner
   • No help
   • Ability to perceive situations as acceptable
   • Connected with listening comprehension scores

4. Extroversion / Introversion

   • Extroverted learners learn rapidly
   • Extroverted learners interact with others
   • Extroverted learners practice the language more
   • Introversion = good study methods
   • Achievement

5. Other personality factors

   • Authoritarianism
   • Ethnocentrism
   • Dogmatism

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