Personality Type and Cloze Passage Task: A Study of Correlation between Personality Traits and Performance on Cloze Passage Tasks

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between personality traits of L2 learners and their degree of success in performing cloze passage tasks. To this end, 80 advanced L2 learners in ILI were selected. The Myers-Briggs personality questionnaire and a test of cloze passage were used as the instruments. Coefficient of correlation between the participants’ scores and their degree of personality traits were calculated by Pearson formula. The results indicated that degrees of sense and thinking had a significant positive correlation with the performance on cloze test. Being good at organizing, recording, storing, and recollecting the previously encountered data are suggested to be the main reasons that put sensing people in a strong position to perform relatively well on cloze passage test. Also, having an objective and criterion-based mode of thinking are proposed to be a possible reason behind the success of thinking people on cloze passage test.