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SEX AND PERSONALITY DIFFERENCES IN SECOND LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOL PUPILS
Author(s) -
RIDING R. J.,
BANNER G. E.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1986.tb03050.x
Subject(s) - raven's progressive matrices , psychology , eysenck personality questionnaire , extraversion and introversion , personality , developmental psychology , plural , test (biology) , big five personality traits , social psychology , linguistics , cognition , paleontology , philosophy , neuroscience , biology
S ummary . Two experiments investigated the relationship between sex and personality and second language performance in secondary school pupils. In the first, 56 13–14‐year‐old children were given the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory, Raven's Standard Matrices and three French performance tests (comprehension, essay and prose translation). Two significant effects were found: (a) The performance of girls was superior to boys; (b) there was an interaction between Raven's matrices, extraversion and test type such that for extraverts, high Raven's subjects were superior to low Raven's on the essay and translation tasks which required a large amount of translation from English to French, but not on comprehension, while for introverts the pattern was reversed. In the second experiment 48 12–13‐year‐old children were given the Junior Eysenck Personality Inventory, Raven's Standard Matrices and two French performance tests (comprehension and essay) which were both scored according to ability to use singular and plural, set phrases and verbs. Again girls were superior to boys. There was also a significant interaction between Ravens, extraversion and skill type.