A research report and poster describing a project that explored the link between personality and preferred methods of vocabulary learning in ESOL learners.
This project focused on understanding potentials link between a learner's personality type (introvert/extrovert/ambivert) and their preferences regarding vocabulary learning in pairs, groups, or alone, through quantitative and qualitative measures. All participant learners engaged with the paired, group, and individual learning methods and their results were analysed before cross-referencing these results with their identified personality types.
The evidence uncovered by the research indicated that pairwork was effective for all personality types covered by the study. Working alone was shown in post-test results to be effective for both introverts and extroverts, and introverts performed better on average across all teaching methods. The study also found that extroverts performed least well of all personality types, indicating that a broader impact was taking place regardless of the group/pair/alone delivery methods. The researchers speculate that this could be due to the test-teach-test formula giving introverts an advantage. Data was gathered through interviews/surveys and before/after assessments.
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