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Investigating the Relationship between Personality Types, Learning styles and, Learning Strategies of Arab Language Learners

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    1 Associate Professor, Department of Persian Language, Imam Khomeini International University, (Corresponding Author)

    2 Master of Persian Language Teaching in Non-Persian Language, Imam Khomeini International UniversityImam Khomeini International University

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Document Type : Research original ,Regular Article

Abstract

It is fundamental to gain knowledge on overseas students from Arab countries in terms of their personality types, learning styles, and learning strategies to further promote the quality of Persian language teaching. This study investigates the relationship between Arab non-native speakers of Persian language and their leaning styles and strategies. To achieve the goal, 50 Persian learners were randomly selected from a Persian Language Center. Data collection instruments were Personality Types (Myers – Briggs, 1962), Learning Style (Kolb, 1984), and leaning strategies (Oxford, 1990) questionnaires used to measure learners’ personality types, learning styles, and learning strategies, respectively. Results indicated that there was a statistically significant difference between convergent learning style and extroverted and introverted learners; it was also found that the correlation between assimilator style, sensing-intuition thinking and feeling was statistically significant. The result further showed that whereas the participants utilized all learning styles (convergent, divergent, accommodating, and assimilating) proportionally, they utilized metacognitive strategies more than the cognitive strategies. The findings of this study could motivate the teachers to enhance the quality of instruction as well as the quality of methodologies practiced in Persian language classes in accordance with the type of personality and styles and strategies of language learners.

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Language Studies
Volume 12, Issue 2 - Serial Number 24
November 2021
Pages 307-331
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