A Study on the Influence of College English Teachers’ Qualities on Class Atmosphere

Abstract

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.