چکیده:
This study investigated the predictive role of HEXACO personality traits (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) in the speaking performance of Iranian EFL learners, as well as the role of gender in the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and EFL learners’ speaking ability. To this end, 250 learners (125 male and 125 female learners) were selected using a random cluster sampling method and were asked to complete the HEXACO personality traits questionnaire. The speaking ability of all the learners was checked via a scored interview and then was evaluated by three interviewers based on the IELTS speaking bands. Fisher's Z and multiple regressions were used to analyze the data. The results indicated that extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism could predict 90.3 percent of the variance in the speaking ability of the participants. The findings also showed that the gender of the language learners did not have a predicting role in the relationship between personality traits of the language learners and their speaking ability.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Department of English Language, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran Abstract This study investigated the predictive role of HEXACO personality traits (honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and openness to experience) in the speaking performance of Iranian EFL learners, as well as the role of gender in the relationship between HEXACO personality traits and EFL learners’ speaking ability.
The Goodness of Fit Indexes of the Model for the Relationship between HEXACO Personality Traits and Speaking Ability in Female Students {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} Figure 3.
The Goodness of Fit Indexes for the Relationship between the HEXACO Personality Traits and Speaking Ability in Male Students {مراجعه شود به فایل جدول الحاقی} In order to examine whether gender has any role in the relationship between the HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability, Fisher's Z was used, and the results showed that z-score was smaller than 1.
Hence, the findings indicated that there is no significant difference between the correlation of HEXACO personality traits and Iranian male and female EFL learners' speaking ability.
So, the first research hypothesis is confirmed, and it can be said that gender does not have any role in the relationship between the HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability.
Hence, the findings indicated that there are not any significant differences between the correlation of HEXACO personality traits and Iranian EFL learners' speaking ability in terms of their gender.
The findings of the study also revealed that among the HEXACO personality traits, extraversion, conscientiousness, and altruism are the best predictors of speaking ability (P≤0/01).