Abstract
Abstract 112 secondary school pupils of ca 15 years of age, who had received five years of English instruction, were given three standardised commercial tests to measure personality: the social motivation test (SMT 4–9), the personality-interests-test (PIT) and the intelligence-structure-test (IST). The foreign language achievements of the pupils in vocabulary and grammar were measured by an informal, textbook-independent test developed for the purpose. A rank-correlation statistical analysis indicated the connection between individual personality variables and the said English skills. To determine this connection more accurately, partial rank-correlations were made. It was then shown in matrixform which personality variables were related to which skills. Achievement in the area of vocabulary is related to the variable self-criticism, combinatory skill and the global intelligence raw score; for grammar, group dependence, social intercourse in business and trade, combinatory skill and linguistic abstraction skill.
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