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Foreign Language Teaching Style and Personality
Author(s) -
Cooper Thomas C.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
foreign language annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.258
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1944-9720
pISSN - 0015-718X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1944-9720.2001.tb02062.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , foreign language , preference , feeling , style (visual arts) , mathematics education , foreign language teaching , personality type , pedagogy , social psychology , archaeology , economics , history , microeconomics
Every foreign language teacher develops a teaching style of pedagogical activities and techniques that especially matches his or her personality In this study, the author administered a Teaching Activity Preference ( TAP ) Questionnaire to ascertain how well teaching preferences fit personality type as determined by the Myers‐Briggs Type Indicator ( MBTI ) . The principal findings of the study were: ( 1 ) the type distribution among pre‐service foreign language students in the sample confirmed the pattern found by other studies of foreign language teachers, a group of individuals with a high proportion of feeling types; (2) the TAP Questionnaire distinguished the personality types from one another; and ( 3 ) the TAP Questionnaire indicated that preferred teaching activities usually matched the personality dimensions of the participant. Some of the pedagogical implications for foreign language teachers are discussed .