The Predictive Power of Big Five Traits on EFL Teacher Ratings of University Students’ Academic Essays (Research Paper)

Results from some previous L۲ studies have pointed to the positive correlation between psychological variables and L۲ proficiency, fluency, and academic success. Such research findings have contributed considerably to our knowledge of the field. However, the extent of such psychological factors as conscientiousness, and their relation with teacher ratings is still unknown. The ultimate goal of the present study was to examine the predictive power of five psychological variables, known as big five traits, on the ratings Iranian EFL teachers awarded to student essays. To that end, ۱۵۰ teacher raters were asked to rate ten randomly selected five-paragraph essays (once analytically and once holistically) students of English had written in their essay writing classes using analytic and holistic rating scales. Two separate standard multiple regression procedures, as implemented in SPSS (version ۲۵), were used to analyse the data for the present study. Results from regression analyses showed big five traits, including extroversion, conscientiousness, openness to experience, neuroticism, and agreeability, did not predict analytic and holistic ratings. The findings suggest that such psychological variables do not statistically contribute to the ratings awarded to expository text types.

کلیدواژه ها:

Analytic Scales ، Big Five ، Holistic Scales ، ratings ، Traits