Language Proficiency among Higher Secondary Students with Respect to Psychological Factors

Language differentiates the person from other living creature. Especially the English language universally connects the people with no bias. In this study language proficiency measured with reading and writing skills. The both skills are compliments each other. The psychological factor refers to the scores obtained by the eleventh standard students in the multidimensional personality inventory. Psychological factors affect the language skills of the person. The domains namely cognitive and affective influence the language skills of the learner. In this study the researcher used the English language proficiency test by K.S. Misra and Ruchi Dubey, for reading and writing skills. For assessing the psychological factors, Multi-dimensional personality inventory by Agarawal (1986) was used. The statistical calculation inferred that self- concept and temperamental traits of psychological factors show difference in reading and writing skills, while other psychological factors namely: social participation, dependency, adjustment doesn't influence the reading and writing skills of the students.