第二语言习得过程中,个人差异普遍存在。人格是个人差异的一个重要因素,对学习者的学习态度、学习兴趣以及学习方式都有很大的影响。因此,探究人格因素,对认识第二语言习得的规律和指导第二语言教学有重要意义。 1.什么是人格?定义及纬度对于人格的概念,心理学界和语言学界都有不同的观点。《朗曼语言教学与应用语言学辞典》(Richards等,1992:271)把人格定义为“一个人的行为、态度、信念、思维、行动、情感的一些方面,这些方面构成这个人的显著特征,并为其本人及其他人所辨认。”这个定义罗列人格的一些表征,把人格这一复杂现象看成似乎互不相关的若干心理特征的累积。显然,这样的定义对全面把握人格的内涵没有很大的帮助。笔者倾向于使用关于 In the second language acquisition process, personal differences are common. Personality is an important factor in personal differences, and has a great impact on learners’ learning attitude, learning interests and learning styles. Therefore, exploring personality factors is of great significance for understanding the rules of second language acquisition and teaching second language teaching. 1. What is personality? Definition and latitude for the concept of personality, psychology and linguistics have different views. The Langham Dictionary of Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics (Richards et al., 1992: 271) defines personality as “a person’s behavior, attitude, beliefs, thinking, action, aspects of emotion that constitute the salient features of this person And identified for himself and others. ”This definition lists some of the representations of personality that see the complex phenomenon of personality as the accumulation of several psychological features that seem to be unrelated to one another. Obviously, such a definition of the full grasp of the meaning of personality is not very helpful. I tend to use about