PERSONALITY TYPE AND SPEAKING PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF IRANIAN MALE EFL LEARNERS

The purpose of this study was an investigation of possible difference between extroversion/introversion personality types and speaking performance of iranian efl learners. In order to investigate this, 60 high-intermediate participants from males took part in the study at nourelahi institute in tabriz, iran. To collect some parts of the data, they were administered the last version of eysenck personality test (epqr, 1999) to show the participants' personality type. Another part of the data which was the participants' speaking performance was gathered by speaking test. Meanwhile 3 ph.d non-native speakers of english instructors at the same institution scored the participants speaking performances. The collected data went through independent sample t-test and the results of statistical analysis indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between personality type and descriptive speaking performance.