%0 Journal Article %1 arsalankhanmohammadiotaghsara2013personality %D 2013 %E Ahmad, Tauseef %J Reviews of Progress %K Distance Education. English Learning %N 20 %T THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING %U http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/35.pdf %V 1 %X In recent years, with increasing progression psychology, many studies have been done on the role of mental processes in human learning. Yet, very little researches have been done about the role of personality in learning, especially scholastic learning, and personality researches, mainly, related to mental illness or mental health with personality. The aim of this research is to study of relationship among Jung's personality dimensions (introversion-extroversion E/I, intuition-sensing N/S, thinking-feeling T/F, perceiving-judging P/J) based on Jungian personality types and leaning English. 137 distance education university students of Iran were randomly selected. Hogan-Champagne Personal Style Inventory (PSI) was administered on all participants the inventory assesses the personality dimensions based on Jungian personality types. English grades were obtained to compare with personality dimensions. Pearson correlation formula was performed to analyze the data. Findings showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between learning English and introversion and a negative relationship between learning English and extroversion. Because English language learning has somewhat analytical and grammatical topics, and distance education system needs distance learning and usually without direct and face to face attendance of teacher, introverted students learn English easier and better than extroverted ones.

@article{arsalankhanmohammadiotaghsara2013personality, abstract = {In recent years, with increasing progression psychology, many studies have been done on the role of mental processes in human learning. Yet, very little researches have been done about the role of personality in learning, especially scholastic learning, and personality researches, mainly, related to mental illness or mental health with personality. The aim of this research is to study of relationship among Jung's personality dimensions (introversion-extroversion E/I, intuition-sensing N/S, thinking-feeling T/F, perceiving-judging P/J) based on Jungian personality types and leaning English. 137 distance education university students of Iran were randomly selected. Hogan-Champagne Personal Style Inventory (PSI) was administered on all participants the inventory assesses the personality dimensions based on Jungian personality types. English grades were obtained to compare with personality dimensions. Pearson correlation formula was performed to analyze the data. Findings showed that there is a significant and positive relationship between learning English and introversion and a negative relationship between learning English and extroversion. Because English language learning has somewhat analytical and grammatical topics, and distance education system needs distance learning and usually without direct and face to face attendance of teacher, introverted students learn English easier and better than extroverted ones. }, added-at = {2014-08-17T08:58:09.000+0200}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2122f40f6cefcac3573d90286d4de7f5e/sciencejournal}, editor = {Ahmad, Tauseef}, interhash = {25962256d3bbf72c33305396de0317e6}, intrahash = {122f40f6cefcac3573d90286d4de7f5e}, journal = {Reviews of Progress }, keywords = {Distance Education. English Learning}, month = {August}, number = 20, timestamp = {2014-08-17T08:58:09.000+0200}, title = {THE ROLE OF PERSONALITY DIMENSIONS IN LEARNING ENGLISH THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING}, url = {http://reviewsofprogress.org/UploadedArticle/35.pdf}, volume = 1, year = 2013 }