PERSONALITY AND OTHER FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ENGLISH CONVERSATIONAL ABILITY : A CASE STUDY OF SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

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This case study of seven students attending Komazawa Gakuen Girl's High School identifies common factors associated with oral fluency and makes recommendations for teachers. The subjects were chose for their willingness to speak English in class, their fluency, and their accuracy. The subjects were interviewed and their personalities were assessed with the Y G Personality Inventory (Guilford & Yatabe, undated). Common factors arising from the interviews included concrete goals necessitating oral English ability, identification with foreign culture, an orientation more towards communication than towards norms, persistence, self-direction and flexibility (especially in finding native- and non-native speakers of English to speak with), and special learning opportunities or early exposure to English. All seven subjects used their own pedagogical English tapes or listened to radio or television English lessons, and also frequently both enjoyed and studied entertaining English audio and visual media. On the Y G Personality Inventory subjects' scores tended towards the mid-range on the dimension of Neuroticism/Stability, but markedly more towards Extraversion than towards Introversion.
駒沢女子大学の論文
1994-03-03