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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
"Praise be to Allah, the Cherisher and the Sustainer of the worlds"
We would like first to praise ALLAH for providing us patience and strength to finish this work.
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to our supervisor Dr.T.Bouazid for his help, precious suggestions, patience, and the valuable pieces of advice he gave us.
We would like also to thank all the teachers and the students involved in this study for their contribution. My special thanks and gratitude are to my teacher Mrs. Herizi for her faithful support and love throughout the years of my study at university.
We warmly thank the administrators and teachers who had given their support, help and had spent their valuable time by participating in this study.
We gratefully acknowledge the emotional support, greatest guidance and encouragements of our family.
Finally, we would also like to thank all our classmates for the nice time that we spent together helping one another.
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Abstract
The present research explored the extent to which teacher’s personality affects students’ motivation who learn English as a foreign language (EFL). The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between teacher’s personality and EFL learners’ motivation. It also attempted to examine whether teachers’ personality characteristics influence students’ motivation positively or negatively ;and to what extent .This investigation was conducted among the first year LMD students of English Department at M’sila University. Additionally, only 30 students were randomly selected to participate in this study. It was based on the use of the descriptive research where data were collected both qualitatively through classroom observation and quantitatively through questionnaire use. The results revealed that there is a relationship between teacher’s personality and learners’ motivation. Also, the findings of this study indicated that just like other factors (such as: personal experiences, learner’s environment, self-esteem…) the personality of the teacher is an important factor that has significant effects on EFL learners’ motivation. This research tackled descriptively one area of this relationship. Therefore, important research implications and future research directions are also suggested.
