COLLEGE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTIONS OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS’ TEACHING QUALITIES: A CASE STUDY IN CHINA

Abstract

Teachers’ teaching qualities include four aspects: personality quality, classroom management, content, pedagogical and technical skill and knowledge and teaching professionalism. This study aimed to investigate the students’ perceptions of English language teachers’ teaching qualities and identify the students’ preferences of English language teachers’ teaching qualities. This study employed a quantitative method. The quantitative research is based on a questionnaire completed by 52 second-year English major college student from Shaanxi University of Chinese Medicine. The questionnaire was modified from Evrim Ustunluoglu’s (2011) research. The 43-item questionnaires filled out by 52 respondents. The questionnaire was sent to the respondents online.

The findings of the study reviewed that students’ perceptions of highest mean value is personality quality. And students also think that a good English language teacher need to have the teaching abilities of classroom management, content, pedagogical and technical skills and knowledge and teaching professionalism.