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- Title
Beliefs about language learning: Exploring links to personality traits.
- Authors
Bernat, Eva; Carter, Nan; Hall, David
- Abstract
This paper reports on an exploratory study that aimed to investigate a possible relationship between learners' beliefs about language learning and their personality traits - a relationship suggested by a number of interdisciplinary studies, including those in cognitive and personality psychology. The motive for conducting this study was to seek to explain the previously reported stable nature of certain learner beliefs, particularly since negative beliefs can be detrimental to the learning process. Data from 262 ESL learners were collected using the Beliefs About Language Learning Inventory (Horwitz, 1987) and the NEO-Five Factory Inventory (Costa & McCrae, 1985), and analyzed using factor analysis and multivariate regression analysis. Overall, the results do not suggest a strong relationship between learner beliefs and personality traits in the population sampled.
- Subjects
FOREIGN language education; INTERDISCIPLINARY education; REGRESSION analysis; COGNITIVE ability; ACTIVE learning; ANALYSIS of variance
- Publication
University of Sydney Papers in TESOL, 2009, Vol 4, Issue 4, p115
- ISSN
1834-3198
- Publication type
Article