Czy warto być otwartym w nauce języka obcego?
Is it worth being open in the second language acquisition process?

Summary/Abstract: Human personality is one of the most fundamental aspects of existance. It can be described by means of the so-called Big Five Model that demonstrates openness to experience as one of the five basic personality dimensions. It has been researched not only in Psychology, but also in the domain of Second Language Acquisition (SLA). The results show that openness is a key trait that enables successful language learning. But its high level is not free from limitations, while its low level is not necessarily related to total failure in this respect. The paper includes a description of the Big Five Model and openness to experience, together with its lower order aspects. Then the outline of the latest empirical research in SLA is followed by a set of pedagogical intervensions directed at students with low and high levels of openness to experience.

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