Describing on what a good English teacher is. What do students have to say about this?

Abstract

Understanding students’ beliefs in what a good English teacher is, during their English learning process, is debatable. According to students’ language learning experience, they are knowledgeable enough to isolate the characteristics they believe are features of good and bad English teachers. Derived from data is a set of definitions that describe good and bad English teachers’ characteristics and behaviors which help understand those real needs that language learners have. Coincidences and singularities of data show that good English teachers are a matter of teachers offering a good model, fluent in the target language with good communicative skills; the bad, quite opposite.