SEEKING RELATION BETWEEN EFL STUDENTS’ EXTRAVERSION AND THEIR READING MASTERY

Abstract

Reading is one of the skills that becomes crucial to be mastered by English learners in Indonesia. However, the researchers in this present study found that the mid-semester average score for a professional reading course at a state university in Central Java showed less than optimal numbers. In connection with that, previous studies have shown that there is a relationship between student personality and student learning outcomes. On the other hand, only a number of studies showed different results regarding the relation between students' personality and students' reading mastery. To give more understanding on this problem, the researchers in this study are interested to see whether there is a relationship between EFL students' extraversion and their mastery of reading skills. Hence, correlational research was the methodology employed in this study. The participants consist of 38 students majoring in English education. Using an International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) questionnaire, makes it simple to ascertain the personality of each respondent, regardless of whether they are high-extraversion or low-extraversion learners. The results of the participants' mid-semester tests for the professional reading course also provided evidence of their mastery of reading skills. Both reading and extraversion scores include quantitative data. Hence, in order to analyse the data, SPSS and Pearson product-moment regression were also employed. The study's results convinced the researchers that there is no connection between extraversion and EFL students' reading mastery.