THE ROLE OF STUDENTS’ PERSONALITY IN LEARNING ENGLISH AT CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY OF INDONESIA TORAJA

The objectives of the research are to find out the role of students’ personality in
learning English at UKI Toraja. In this research the writer used descriptive qualitative method.
The participants of this research was the fifth semesters academic year 2016/2017, there were
10 students. To choose participants the writer used purposive sampling, it means the
participants chose as intentional for the students had index cumulative presentation 3.5. To
collect the data, the writer used questionnaire, interview and observation as instruments. The
result of this research found that out of ten students as participants, six of them have introvert
personality and four of them have extrovert personality. The personality role of extrovert
students are four roles namely as motivator, starting up atmosphere, starting up conversation
and as helper, meanwhile there are two roles of introvert students namely as investigator and
giver suggestion in learning English. Based on the result, the writer concluded introvert and
extrovert students have different role in learning English and they have to taught and treated
based on their characteristics.