The Connection between Personalities and Secondary Language LearningFrom the Perspective of Learning Strategy

Abstract

The research is faced with secondary language learning among different individuals, which focuses more on learning strategies. Based on this viewpoint, this research has investigated 112 different individuals in the form of questionnaire, in order to predicate whether personality affects secondary language learning outcome or not. According to the research, students account for the largest proportion, whose age period are from 20 to 35. In other words, the paper showed the biggest rate of informants, college students in recent years. It is discovered that more than half of participants agree with the point that personality has an influence on secondary language learning. Take attitude for example, approximately 80% of them are positive about solving their problems that they are faced with during the learning process. The paper adopts the analysis of the link between personality and secondary language learners and discourse analysis to deeper understanding of positive and negative transfer among different learners. The result showed such an answer: it is not just personality is correlated to secondary language learning, a number of external factors is linked with learning outcome, especially in positive transfer in language learning . In consequence, except personality from the perspective of learning strategies, researches that linked with external factors are still in the long run, such as teaching methods, learning atmosphere and the status of language.