MBTI 성격 유형에 따른 독해 책략 연구

Research into Reading Strategies Based on MBTI Personality Types

This article delves into which MBTI personality types arise in which particular reading comprehension strategies, thus aiming to deliver optimum English instructions based on individual preferences. To that end, using MBTI data concurrently with the reading strategy preference results collected from 131 participants, this study examined five discrete reading comprehension strategies according to 16 personality types in four ranges－favorite worlds, information, decision, and structure. The results evidenced that E-typed and J-typed learners adopted the vocabulary meaning decoding strategy more than I-typed and P-typed learners. The guessing and comprehension check strategy statistically differed between E- and I-typed learners. The meta-cognitive strategy also confirmed the statistical significance between T- and F-typed learners. It was found that different reading strategies could depend on L2 learners’ different personality types. Overall, it can be interpreted that active employment of a wide range of reading strategies through diverse instructional approaches would eventually foster L2 learners’ reading comprehension while enhancing their strengths and complementing weaknesse.