The effect of personality traits on adult learners’ vocabulary learning

Abstract

Personality traits are known as one of the feature of interpersonal communication and the form of communication is most important for social interaction. It never occurs in any to people in exactly the same way. This is the area of personality factors and the relation of personality traits to vocabulary learning. In language learning learner can take the advantage of vocabulary learning through the social interaction. Without profound knowledge of vocabulary learners performance in the language skills will be declined. The present study tried to investigate to find out the result how personality traits effects on learners vocabulary learning for adult learner in Bangladeshi context. To find out the results questionnaires were formed and there was question to take the interview. Based on the learners performance on the questionnaire and interview there are different group of personality traits, like-extravert, introvert, risk-taker, self-confident, conscientiousness, outgoingness, assertiveness, agreeableness etc. It has been reported that assertive, outgoingness, extrovert, risk-taker are the better vocabulary learner rather than the introvert and confined person. The result of this study may help adult Bangladeshi learners to develop their positive personality skills and achieve success in vocabulary learning. This present study tries to investigate the possible impact of personality traits on vocabulary acquisition.