A Study on EFL Learners5 Listening Ability and Learners' Personality

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  • ＥＦＬ学習者のリスニング能力と性格特性
  • EFL ガクシュウシャ ノ リスニング ノウリョク ト セイカク トクセイ

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The purpose of this study is to clarify what group of personality traits contributes most to the development of EFL learners' listening abilities. The subjects were ninety-eight freshmen students at a junior college in Niigata prefecture. In the experiment, in order to improve listening abilities, the subjects practiced repetition drills concentrating on sound changes occurring in rapid colloquial English in the Language Laboratory. The experiment was performed from April to October in 1999. According to the results of the Maudsley Personality Inventory by Eysenck, subjects were divided into two groups, extraverts and introverts, and then four groups that were formed by adding the dimension of neuroticism to the dimension of extraversion - introversion. JACET Basic Comprehension Test Form A and B were used to measure the subjects' listening abilities. The scores of the tests were analyzed by ANOVA. The results of this study indicated that in both groups, the extraverts and the introverts, subjects improved their listening abilities significantly from the pretest to the posttest. There was no significant difference in development of the subjects' listening abilities between the two groups. As for the four groups, the subjects in two of them improved significantly in their listening abilities from the pretest to the posttest: the instability - extroversion group, and the stability - introversion group.

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