Analysing the relations between personality traits and attitudes towards foreign language learning of secondary school students

Personality has long been a dilemma for foreign language learners, however, many researches assumed that both empathy and personality have positive effects on second language teaching and learning. Personality traits may result certain differences in learner's learning styles and strategies as well as the ultimate achievements. Personality and attitudes have always been key aspects in teaching foreign languages. In other words, personality and attitudes towards foreign languages have always been important to achieve a better situation on learning and teaching a foreign language. Certainly so many new techniques developed by the scientists and used both by teachers and students according to their personalities. Foreign language learning has been a real life context and also reminds us that for people who geographically exchange one culture for another, the task of learning a foreign language poses a challenge to the integrity of basic identifications. " Ten-Item Personality Inventory", "Attitudes Towards English Scale" and personal information form used in the study his study and the study conducted in Van, Turkey involving 7th and 8th grade secondary school students to find out relations between personality and attitudes towards foreign language learning and also teaching. As a result, the thesis has argued in support of clear significant differences between the groups in terms of variables. As a result of the findings, it can be say that personality has a significant role on language learning.