Students' personality types and their preferences for language learning activities : is there a match?

Abstract

Finding activities that would motivate students so that they want to study and, as a result, make them acquire information better has always been an important issue for teachers around the world. One possible solution could be using teaching methods that would match students’ personality types. The aim of this MA thesis, therefore, is to find out if students, in fact, like the activities they should presumably prefer based on their personality type, establishing, thus, a connection between students’ preferences for learning activities and their personality types. The study was conducted in a group of 8th grade students in Estonia and the DISC personality testing model was used.