摘要：AbstractPersonality factors have been shown in the literature to relate to language learning. However, scant attention is paid to investigate the relationship between risk-taking and oral narrative proficiency. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the relationship between risk-taking, gender and oral narrative proficiency in the Iranian EFL context. 62 participants (31 male and 31 female) completed the Persian version of Venturesomeness subscale of Eysenck's IVE Questionnaire. Afterwards, they were asked to do two oral narrative tasks including storytelling based on a picture prompt, and storytelling based on the first day experience at the university. Students’ speech samples were rated by two raters and the inter-rater reliability analysis indicated a high degree of consistency between the two ratings. Since gender is a dichotomous variable, two correlations including Pearson Product-Moment Correlation and Point Biserial Correlation were used in the study. The findings suggest that there is not a significant relationship between risk-taking and oral narrative proficiency of Iranian EFL students (r=0.18). Also, no significant relationship was found between gender and narrative proficiency of the participants (r=0.14). The results have some implications for language teaching.
