Lida Dehghani - Department of Foreign Languages, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch

The current study focused on the impact of the character of advanced English learners with different levels of motivation upon their proficiency at speaking and listening. To this end, a questionnaire wasdistributed to a number of advanced learners; the questions included in the questionnaire were framed insuch a way that (a) they reflected learners' kind of character and the level of their motivation and (b) their proficiency at speaking and listening. Consequently, the proficiency at speaking and listening with a special kind of character differed from that of students with other kinds of character