This research study deals with the relationships of personality and intelligence to English school achievements in the seventh grade of Finnish secondary school. Emphasis is placed upon student factors in learning and teaching a foreign language, particularly upon those student variables which the teacher can influence. A literature review summarizes previous studies of personality and foreign language learning and previous studies of intelligence and foreign language learning. The purposes of the exploratory field study are described: to discover significant variables in the field situation; identify relationships between variables; and, lay a foundation for more systematic testing of related hypotheses. Results of the study and analysis of the data are supportive to these goals. (SHM)