A STUDY ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE DEGREE OF PERSONALITY TRAITS THROUGH INTEGRATING LISTENING TASK ON IRANIAN INTERMEDIATE EFL LEARNERS' IMPROVEMENT OF LISTENING COMPREHENSION ABILITY

The present study aimed to investigate on the effectiveness of the degree of personality traits through integrating listening task on Iranian intermediate EFL learners' improvement of listening comprehension ability. The main question this study tried to answer was whether the degree of personality traits through integrating listening task might enhance higher ability of listening comprehension in Iranian learners of English at intermediate level. For this purpose 100 learners of English at....... language institute participated in this study. Having being homogenized by an Oxford placement test (OPT), 40 learners were selected and they were randomly assigned into two groups of Extrovert and Introvert. A pretest of listening comprehension was administered to both groups, Then the Introvert (experimental) group received treatment based on listening task through small talk. While the other group received no treatment. At the end both groups sat for post-test and received the same listening test in order to explore the subjects' ability in two groups on the specific treatment program. The data of the study were analyzed using an independent sample t-test to indicate the groups' posttest mean difference. The results indicated that the Iranian EFL learners in the Introvert (experimental) group received higher scores in listening comprehension after being treated with listening task through small talk.