Extroverted and Introverted EFL Teachers’ Specific Teaching Techniques of Classroom Management

There appears to be a link between EFL teachers’ personality traits, teaching techniques, and classroom management strategies. This survey study aimed to investigate the differences between the extroverted and introverted Iranian EFL teachers’ specific teaching techniques of classroom management. Accordingly, forty male and female Iranian EFL teachers teaching at the ILI (Iran Language Institute) from Mazandaran, Iran were selected through non-probability convenience sampling. Based on the scores they obtained from the Persian translation of the Eysenck Personality Inventory (EPI) Questionnaire, they were grouped as extroverted and introverted participants. Then the Teacher Classroom Management Strategies Questionnaire (owned by The Incredible Years, Inc. USA, 2012) was used to see how often the participants use specific teaching techniques and how useful they find each technique for managing their classroom. The independent samples t-test indicated a significant difference between the extroverted and introverted Iranian EFL teachers’ specific teaching techniques of classroom management. Based on the results, extroverted EFL teachers were better than introverted ones at using specific teaching techniques of classroom management. The findings suggested that teachers should be aware of their personality traits in order to better understand themselves and to find the best types of techniques for better classroom management.