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The Impact of Openness and Ambiguity Tolerance on Learning English as a Foreign Language

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Authors:
  1. Brygida Lika

    1. Department of ELA, Opole University, Opole, Poland

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  • Presents learners' personality traits and their impact on the level of foreign language acquisition
  • Reflects current trends in applied linguistics
  • Introduces profiles of foreign language learners with different levels of openness to experience

Part of the book series: Second Language Learning and Teaching (SLLT)

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This book highlights the importance of individual learner differences in learning English as a foreign language and reports the findings of a study which investigated the impact of two personality traits, which are, openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, on target language attainment among Polish secondary school students. The book provides an exhaustive overview of the theoretical issues and existing research related to personality, emphasizing the two traits under investigation, openness, and ambiguity tolerance, which are the focus of the empirical study reported later in the book. The empirical investigation explored relationships between openness to experience and ambiguity tolerance, as well as their impact on attainment in learning English as a foreign language. Moreover, it also aimed to shed light on the link between these traits and students’ assessments (i.e., self-assessment and school grades). The findings of the study provide a basis for proposing specific profiles of foreign language learners with different levels of openness and ambiguity tolerance.

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 1-5

  3. Personality and Openness to Experience: Theoretical Background

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 7-45

  4. The Characteristics of Ambiguity Tolerance

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 47-70

  5. Selected Empirical Research on Openness to Experience and Ambiguity Tolerance

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 71-100

  6. The Study

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 101-129

  7. Discussion

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 131-151

  8. Summary of Findings, Implications, and Recommendations for the Foreign Language Classroom

    • Brygida Lika
    Pages 153-165

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 167-177
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of ELA, Opole University, Opole, Poland

    Brygida Lika

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Impact of Openness and Ambiguity Tolerance on Learning English as a Foreign Language

  • Authors: Brygida Lika

  • Series Title: Second Language Learning and Teaching

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45940-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45939-9Published: 10 January 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-45942-9Due: 10 February 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-45940-5Published: 09 January 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2193-7648

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-7656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 177

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Applied Linguistics, Higher Education, Psychology, general, Education, general

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