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In foreign language teaching, classroom atmosphere plays an important role in students' learning effect. Although there are many factors that can affect the classroom atmosphere, such as traditional Chinese culture "silence is golden", "emphasize harmony and collective" etc., the role of teachers cannot be ignored. In order to specify its effect on class atmosphere, in this paper a survey was conducted among 883 students from 5 different types of colleges and universities in Hebei province. The results show that some specific qualities of college English teachers have effect on class atmosphere. Based on the findings, some suggestions as to how to improve college English teachers' qualities to promote class atmosphere was put forward, thus improve classroom qualities and foreign language acquisition.

Abstract. Classroom atmosphere plays an important role in second language learning. Although there are many factors that can affect the classroom atmosphere, such as students' learning motivation, and etc., college English teachers also play an important role, especially teachers' verbal language (teacher talk) in class, which is still the main way for teachers and students to interact with each other in class. Based on the great success of excellent TV talk shows in the atmosphere and similarities between English class and TV talk shows, in this paper, it is explored by specifying on the good qualities of TV talk show hosts' words which are worthwhile for college English teachers to learn from. On the basis of this, some suggestions as to refine college English teachers' words to improve class atmosphere were put forward, thus improving classroom qualities and foreign language acquisition.

There exists discrepancies whether English grammar should be taught and how to be taught in second language learning classroom. Grammar teaching in Chinese colleges has been downplayed with communication competence becoming the primary goal of language learners. Its direct consequences are difficulties in students' English comprehension and considerable grammatical mistakes in writing, translation parts due to low grammatical level. High grammatical level calls for both explicit knowledge input and a large amount of implicit input for college students to internalize the grammatical rules. Information technology has provided the platform for adult college students to access to vast English language materials in various forms. Grammar teaching patterns in college will be explored in this study.

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