Relationship between Teaching Competency and Personality Traits of English Language Teachers

In this study, an attempt has been made to study the relationship between Teaching competency and different personality traits of English language teachers. The Teaching Competency Scale for English Language Teacher (TCSELT) constructed and standardized by the investigators and the Dimensional Personality Inventory (DPI) a standardized by Mahesh Bhargava (2006) was used to collect the data from the sample of 540 English language teachers in Cuddalore district of Tamilnadu, India. The survey method has been followed and the Cluster sampling technique was used in administration of the research tools. The result of the analysis reveals that there is a positive and significant correlation between Activity-Passivity, Enthusiastic-Non-enthusiastic trait and Teaching competency of English language teachers. There is a negative and significant correlation between Depressive- Non-depressive trait, Emotional instability –Emotional stability trait and Teaching competency of English language teachers. Only 8.9% of variance in teaching competency is attributed by the different personality traits of the English language teachers. The remaining percentage 90.1% (1- R square) is to be accounted by other factors which are not considered in this study.