English Language Anxiety and the Big Five Personality Factors
Youssef BABA KHOUYA

Abstract
This study aimed at examining the relationship between the Big-Five personality factors (BFBFs) and English language anxiety (ELA) following a multivariate approach. The participants were 345 university students (58% female and 42% male) from non-English majors. Canonical correlation indicated that Neuroticism was positively correlated whereas both Openness to Experience and Agreeableness were negatively correlated with Communication Apprehension and Anxiety of English Class. Extraversion was found to be positively correlated with Test Anxiety and Fear of Negative Evaluation. No correlation was found between Conscientiousness and ELA. In the light of these findings, some pertinent implications were provided.

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