The Interaction of Extroversion and Oral and Written Proficiency/ Achievement in English of First year AAU Students

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between students’ tendency towards
extroversion and oral and written proficiency/ achievement scores of first year students at
Addis Ababa University. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship
between subjects’ tendency towards extroversion and oral and written proficiency/
achievement scores. In order to test the hypothesis, randomly selected students from thirteen
departments of the College of Education (four from Science and nine from social Sciences
and Language Education) completed the personality questionnaire (EPI). Each student who
completed the questionnaire was given oral and written proficiency tests. Then, the same
subjects’ oral and achievement test scores were collected from individual instructors for
comparison.
The findings showed that some of the correlation values such as those between
extroversion and oral proficiency, extroversion and total proficiency, extroversion
and income status of the subjects’ family, extroversion and FL anxiety are
negatively significant.