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Title
On The Relationship Between
Introversion/Extroversion and Grammaticality
Judgment among the Iranian EFL Learners

Authors
S.A. Razmjoo, PH.D in TEFL
(Shiraz University)

M. Shaban, MA in TEFL
(Bandar Abbas Azad University)

Abstract
The present study is a correlational research which attempts to investigate the relationship between Introversion/Extroversion and English grammaticality judgment among the Iranian EFL learners currently studying in domestic colleges. It tries to find answers to the following questions: a) Is there any relationship between introversion/extroversion and grammaticality judgment among EFL Iranian learners? b) Is there any relationship between proficiency and the grammaticality judgment among the EFL Iranian learners? c) Is there any relationship between introversion/extroversion and proficiency among EFL Iranian learners? d) Do proficiency and introversion/extroversion have any relationship with the grammaticality judgment among the EFL Iranian learners? To provide answers to the questions, 142 students from among all the student population studying EFL at Guilan university in Rasht were selected through Farhady's TOEFL test (Farhady, 2006). The participants were selected after excluding those who got L scores of above 4 or 5 from the EPI personality inventory. The subjects were divided in two groups of low (73 participants) and high (69 participants) based on the results of the proficiency test. They were then divided into two groups of introverts and extroverts following the results of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI). After that, the degree of the participants' grammaticality judgment was measured through a grammatical accuracy test. The data collected were analyzed through a combination of descriptive and inferential statistics. The results of the independent sample t-test and Pearson product moment correlation indicated that there is no relationship between introversion/extroversion and grammaticality judgment. However, a regression analysis revealed that there was a high correlation between language proficiency and grammaticality judgment. Moreover, between the variables tilted language proficiency and introversion/extroversion, only proficiency was a predictor for grammaticality judgment.

Key Words: Introversion, Extroversion, Grammaticality Judgment, GJ, EFL learners, Placement test, OPT, Correlation

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