Students’ preferences on teacher’s approaches in teaching english writing based on Big Five Personality Traits

The effectiveness of the teaching approach has resulted in the success of the learning process in facing students' different learning preferences. This study aimed to describe the highest Big Five personality type of the students and to investigate the most suitable teaching writing approach for all of the Big Five personality types in Academic Article Writing class at English Language Education Department. This study used qualitative data to analyze the research questions by distributing two types of questionnaires to 11 students from Academic Article Writing classes and interviewing 5 students. The findings of this study showed that 8 out of 11 students are the Agreeableness types after filling the first questionnaire and the following types are the Openness to Experience type, the Extraversion type, the Neuroticism type, and Conscientiousness type. The study also revealed that the students preferred process approach in article academic writing class. The process approach requires steps that include discussion which helps students to learn writing quickly and share their ideas with other students. In sum, the process approach resulted in a positive effect for all of the Academic Article Writing students.