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ICT week 4 - My Personality Factors that influence language learning

Current Skill : Reading academic textbooks is terribly slow

- Have you just begun your studies? As you learn more about your own subject, reading the textbooks will get easier. Are you using a dictionary sensibly? Can you guess or infer the meanings of words? Do you know about skimming and scanning strategies? An academic reading course might help you. On the Internet, the Reading Room offers special tips for reading English texts.

Motivation : I like to get to know people from other countries
- This is a good example of what has been called “integrative motivation”, ie, wanting to learn a language so that you can integrate easily into the target language group. It sounds as if you are a communicative and active type of learner, who likes to focus on oral skills.

Personality: I think that peoplewill laugh at theway I speak
- People vary a lot in their capacity to achieve a good pronunciation of a new language. Embarrassment and anxiety about this can often make things even worse. This often leads to avoidance of situations where you have to speak and so you rarely get the opportunity to practice. You need to look for situations or courses where you feel safe and less threatened. As you start to feel more comfortable, you will speak more and your pronunciation will gradually improve. And remember, many other people feel the same as you.

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging by Joe Butt

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging by Joe Butt /Date of Revision: 27 Feb 2005

"It is in keeping with tradition throughout our history that I should express simply and directly the opinions which I hold concerning some of the matters of present importance." --Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1929.
ISTJs are often called inspectors. They have a keen sense of right and wrong, especially in their area of interest and/or responsibility. They are noted for devotion to duty. Punctuality is a watchword of the ISTJ. The secretary, clerk, or business(wo)man by whom others set their clocks is likely to be an ISTJ.
As do other Introverted Thinkers, ISTJs often give the initial impression of being aloof and perhaps somewhat cold. Effusive expression of emotional warmth is not something that ISTJs do without considerable energy loss.
ISTJs are most at home with "just the facts, Ma'am." They seem to perform at highest efficiency when employing a step-by-step approach. Once a new procedure has proven itself (i.e., has been shown "to work,") the ISTJ can be depended upon to carry it through, even at the expense of their own health.
ISTJs are easily frustrated by the inconsistencies of others, especially when the second parties don't keep their commitments. But they usually keep their feelings to themselves unless they are asked. And when asked, they don't mince words. Truth wins out over tact. The grim determination of the ISTJ vindicates itself in officiation of sports events, judiciary functions, or an other situation which requires making tough calls and sticking to them.
His SJ orientation draws the ISTJ into the service of established institutions. Home, social clubs, government, schools, the military, churches -- these are the bastions of the SJ. "We've always done it this way" is often reason enough for many ISTJs. Threats to time-honored traditions or established organizations (e.g., a "run" on the bank) are the undoing of SJs, and are to be fought at all costs.


Functional Analysis

Introverted Sensing
Si is oriented toward the world of forms, essences, generics. Time is such a form, a quantifiable essense of exactitude, the standard to which external events are held. For both of the IS_J types, the sense of propriety comes from the clear definition of these internal forms. An apple "should" have certain qualities, against which all apples are evaluated. A "proper" chair has four legs, (and other qualities this poor INTP can only guess). Jung viewed introverted sensing as something of an oxymoron, in that the natural direction of senses is outward toward the object, rather than inward and away from it. One has the sense that Introverted Sensors are drawn more to the measure of the concept of the perceived object than to the experience of that perception.

Extraverted Thinking
The moderation of the Te function serves to socialize the expression of these forms. When the Si function is ready to relinquish the data, Te may speak. Otherwise, silence is golden. ISTJs seem to have a few favorite forms (the tried and true) which may serve for most occasions. My ISTJ dad woke me every morning with the same phrase for more years than I care to remember. Asked, "How are you?" he answered with the same stock phrase. ("As well as my age and habits will permit" was used for about two decades.) "It's a good form, a sound form--it's the form for me."

Introverted Feeling
Since Fi is turned inward, it is rarely expressed. Perhaps this enables the ISTJ to resolutely accept that "we are all doomed." When told that Lazarus had died, Thomas said, "Let us go and die with him." (He could just as well have said something like, "I knew this was bound to happen sooner or later.") Only in times of great distress is the Introverted Feeling expressed (as I witnessed in my dad when a neighbor's son was killed in a hunting accident). Otherwise, feeling is inferred, or expressed nonverbally, through eye contact, or an encouraging smile.

Extraverted iNtuition
The Ne function of an ISTJ does not serve her very well. It needs a lot of help. She was surprised, for example, to find that someone she had talked with only by phone had red hair, because she "didn't usually like" people with red hair! This inferior Ne seems to be a major source of, and a natural breeding ground for, stereotypes. Failure of the banking system is but one bogeyman which arises from the fear which feeds on the ISTJ's mistrust of real world possibilities. The shadow inhabiting the inferior Ne strikes at the precious forms and standards in the heart of the dominant Si function.


Famous ISTJs:
Thomas (Christ's disciple)
U.S. Presidents:
George Washington
Andrew Johnson
Benjamin Harrison
Herbert Hoover
George H. W. Bush
Paul Coverdale (U.S. Senator, R-GA)
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (U.S. Olympic athlete)
Evander Holyfield, heavyweight boxing champion

Fictional ISTJs:
Joe Friday
Mr. Martin (hero of James Thurber's Sitting in the Catbird Seat)
Eeyore (Winnie the Pooh)
Fred Mertz (I Love Lucy)
Puddleglum, the marshwiggle (Chronicles of Narnia)
Cliff (Cheers)

Career for ISTJs

YOUR TYPE
ISTJ

-->Career Choices for Your Type
Perception 12
Processing 38
Implementation 11


Career

Educational Institutions Management

Management

Administrative Management

Accounting

Technical Computer Programming

Technology Education

Physician(Surgery)

Dentist/Dental Assistant

Military Training

* Famous people of your particular type
Herbert Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Greta Garbo

Portrait of the Inspector (ISTJ) by GUARDIAN

Inspectors (ISTJ) work best in a very quiet environment with no interruptions. Inspectors will generally start their studying and end their studying with a completely clean desk. William's study corner looks like a shrine. Everything is organized neatly in drawers while the surfaces are free of all dust and dirt. The best environment for Inspectors is a space that can be closed off, is removed from phones and people, and is orderly.



Guardian™ Portrait of the Inspector (ISTJ)
The one word that best describes Inspectors is superdependable. Whether at home or at work, Inspectors are extraordinarily persevering and dutiful, particularly when it comes to keeping an eye on the people and products they are responsible for. In their quiet way, Inspectors see to it that rules are followed, laws are respected, and standards are upheld.
Inspectors (as much as ten percent of the general population) are the true guardians of institutions. They are patient with their work and with the procedures within an institution, although not always with the unauthorized behavior of some people in that institution. Responsible to the core, Inspectors like it when people know their duties, follow the guidelines, and operate within the rules. For their part, Inspectors will see to it that goods are examined and schedules are kept, that resources will be up to standards and delivered when and where they are supposed to be. And they would prefer that everyone be this dependable. Inspectors can be hard-nosed about the need for following the rules in the workplace, and do not hesitate to report irregularities to the proper authorities. Because of this they are often misjudged as being hard-hearted, or as having ice in their veins, for people fail to see their good intentions and their vulnerability to criticism. Also, because Inspectors usually make their inspections without much flourish or fanfare, the dedication they bring to their work can go unnoticed and unappreciated.
While not as talkative as Supervisor Guardians [ESTJs], Inspectors are still highly sociable, and are likely to be involved in community service organizations, such as Sunday School, Little League, or Boy and Girl Scouting, that transmit traditional values to the young. Like all Guardians, Inspectors hold dear their family social ceremonies-weddings, birthdays, and anniversaries - although they tend to be shy if the occasion becomes too large or too public. Generally speaking, Inspectors are not comfortable with anything that gets too fancy. Their words tend to be plain and down-to-earth, not showy or high-flown; their clothes are often simple and conservative rather than of the latest fashion; and their home and work environments are usually neat, orderly, and traditional, rather than trendy or ostentatious. As for personal property, they usually choose standard items over models loaded with features, and they often try to find classics and antiques - Inspectors prefer the old-fashioned to the newfangled every time.

Queen Elizabeth II, Harry S. Truman, Warren Buffet, Queen Victoria, James K. Polk, and J.D. Rockefeller are examples of Inspector Guardians.

Test Result Of MBTI TEST

Your Type is ISTJ

Introverted 56 %

Sensing 12 %

Thinking 38 %

Judging 11 %

->Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
moderately expressed introvert
slightly expressed sensing personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality


LEARN MORE ABOUT ISTJs

  1. ISTJ type description by D.Keirsey
  2. ISTJ Identify Your Career with Jung Career Indicator?
  3. ISTJ Famous Personalities ISTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss
  4. ISTJ Famous Personalities
  5. ISTJ type description by J. Butt and M.M. Heiss

Journal Topic of the Week 3

Q. What type of learner are you? Tell us about the results of three different tests. Are these results surprising or confirming you? What did you learn about this activity?

According to the MBTI Test, I am ISTJ type of person. The test result says that I am serious, quiet, earn success by concentration and thoroughness. I have to agree on my result because it exactly reflects my personality! I was surprised at the very first moment but I realized it is a nice opportunity to boost up my studying efficiency if I got to know my learning style. The other adjectives that describes ISTJ type of person could be practical, orderly, matter-of-fact, logical, realistic, and dependable and it makes me trust this test more. In addition I usually want that everything is well organized and like to take responsibility. These are the characteristics of inspector-like people, in other words ISTJs. It was a nice experience to take such a test to understand about myself better. I would like to find the way to study more efficiently additionally.