Personality and speech production: a pilot study of second language learners

• Published in: Personality and individual differences Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 355 - 365
• Main Authors: Dewaele, Jean-Marc, Furnham, Adrian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2000; Elsevier
• Subjects: Bilingualism. Multilingualism; Biological and medical sciences; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Language; Learning; Personality; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Second languages; Speech production; Students; Human; French; Extraversion introversion; Language; Young adult; Bilingualism; Personality; Verbal production; Foreign language

Personality traits, and extraversion in particular, has long been unjustly neglected in applied linguistics. Some cognitive and physiological characteristics associated with extraversion, such as superior short-term memory and better resistance to stress, can explain interindividual variation in spe...