lish as aSecond/Foreign Language)in England,Japan,and Oman inorder to determine how"important they rated personality and two other individual differences.Hereported ameanrating of4 on afive—pointscale--slightly higher thantherating ofintelligence andjust below thatformemory.Of the“good language learners”investigated byNaiman eta1.(1978),3 per cent believed that extroversion was helpful inacquiring oralskills. Since the role of personality On second language learning WaS welt acknowledged,some studies had beendone aiming todiscover whether therewereany particular qualities ofpersonality thatfavored oT hindered progress in a second language.However’very few hadinvestigatedpemonality variables and L2 learning and those researches were,in many ways,“unsatisfactory andfrustrating”(Ellis,2001, 5
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