Personality Preferences: Are Learners and Teachers at Loggerheads?

AbstractLearning is believed to be affected by a host of reasons. It does not take much common sense to say that a whole lot of different psychological factors which could contribute to or hinder learning are at play. Even the senses could determine our learning. Personality preferences affect our learning and its pace also. As Hellyer, Robinson and Sherwood (1998) hold our personality influences our source of energy, the way we absorb information, the means we employ to make decisions and the approaches we have towards work and play. The four different parameters form continua, the two ends of which are what we might tend to approach, based on our personality type. This categorization, commonly known as Myres-Briggs Type Indicator shortly termed as MBTI was first proposed by Myres and Briggs. This lack of knowledge regarding the students’ preferences can at times lead to disastrous classes for both teachers and students in that each party blames the other for being intolerant or even worse incompetent for the very class. The purpose of this study is to familiarize the students and their teachers with what their preferences are. To this end, the researcher will administer a questionnaire to find out about the EFL students’ personality preferences and compare the EFL classes which got this treatment with another similar EFL classes which are the control group of this research to find the result of teachers’ awareness towards students’ personality preferences