The Effect of EFL Teachers’ Extrovert and Introvert Personality on Their Instructional Immediacy

Amir Mahdavi Zafarghandi, Sepideh Salehi, Masoud Khalil Sabet

Abstract


The Language teaching is a complex process influenced by many psychological factors such as personality traits (Tonelson, 1981) and socio-communicative styles (Thomas. Et al. 1994). This research sets out to investigate the effect of Teachers' Introvert and Extrovert personality on their instructional Immediacy. In order to address this issue, a study was conducted on 14 PhD holder university EFL lecturers from Guilan province. Instruments for this research included preliminary Myers-Briggs Personality Type Indicator (MBTI) Test, non-verbal immediacy scale, along with verbal immediacy scale observation inventory. After determining the lecturers' Introvert/Extrovert personality, at the next stage, six sessions of direct observation of each lecturer's classroom instructional immediacy were conducted. Statistical analysis of Fisher's exact test between data along with Pearson's correlation was run to determine the relationship between teacher's extrovert personality and their use of verbal immediacy; the results indicate strong, positive correlation (r=.7, p<. 03). Similarly, a strong, positive correlation was found between extrovert personality and use of non-verbal immediacy (r=.75, p<. 01). The other finding of the study was that instructors’ gender showed no significant relation with their verbal and nonverbal instructional immediacy.

 


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EFL teachers, Introvert / Extrovert personalities, Verbal and Nonverbal instructional immediacy

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.5n.1p.57

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