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Psychological Elements and Personality.
The teacher should have patience, confidence, imagination, enthusiasm, humor and creativity. He/She should be friendly, sympathetic and on good terms with the students, and have an affirmative attitude towards the students and occasionally encourage them if necessary. .
As for oral English teachers, the above mentioned abilities are of course necessary. He/she also needs to acquire the following abilities, as suggested by Stephen Tchudi and Diana Mitchell in Explorations in the Teaching of English: .
Oral language involves a complex interaction of speaker and listener, of voice, tone, style, intonation, nonverbal expression. the spoken language cannot truly be "taught". People learn to speak and listen by doing it successfully. Conversely, they become inarticulate and inept when their oral language experiences are unsuccessful or constrained.learning the skills of oral English is closely related to using them, and we believe the teacher should focus attention on making the classroom a place where the use of spoken language is strongly supported. x(p270).
III. Advantages and Disadvantages of Native English Speakers and Chinese Teachers of English in Oral English Course.
The teacher should be an expert or at least should be able to do, with ease, whatever the students are expected to do. A native English speaker can certainly do whatever the students are asked to do himself. And he/she knows everything about the English language and about the western culture. He/She can talk freely, which assures the Chinese students as well as the Chinese teacher of English that the native English speaker is the only choice and the best candidate for teaching oral English. Many native English speakers are successful teachers of oral English. The reasons for their success may be summarized as follows: .
1. A native English speaker himself is foreign, new and different and thus interesting in every way to the student.
