Beliefs about language learning: Exploring links to personality traits
Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
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.
Source: UNSWorks (UNSW Sydney)
Authors: Eva Bernat, Nan Carter
Institution: UNSW Sydney
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W132658681