A Good Language Teacher

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What makes a good language teacher? Pupils, their parents, but, first of all, future language teachers have his/her own answer to this question. In my essay I’ll try to express my opinion. The point is that all people consider language teachers to be distinctive somehow from every other subject teachers. It is true - subjects and their teachers differ, but to my mind the qualities, which make a good language teacher, are similar with the general qualities of a good teacher. I think everybody will agree with the fact, that a good language teacher, just like any other subject teacher, should have a talent and love to the process of teaching in general. In order to become a really good language teacher he needs to love teaching and have a talent…show more content…
You’ll perfect your language, methodology, methods and techniques and will enjoy the process of teaching, working with children, who are so different. Due to your talent to study, you will be glad to always study something new. Teachers meet different situations and they always need to find an appropriate solution to it. If you have a talent for study, you are sure to like children and study how to become a good teacher for them. Language teachers are famous for their broad mindedness – they know cultures of their-language-speaking countries and cultures of other countries, they are the first to know world news, music, books, the first to use modern techniques and electronic equipment both in education and in common life. So, if you wish to become a good language teacher, then you possess one of the talents I’ve enumerated and you are sure to get the rest of it in the nearest future. A good language teacher loves language he teaches, loves the process of teaching and respect his pupils, thus he can easily communicate with the class and each of them individually, tries to speak on topical themes, use both classic and modern literature and songs for reading, listening and writing exercises, can create necessary atmosphere in class and find the best methodology, methods and techniques. Children always feel teacher’s attitude and in our case will answer with the same feelings. They will get involved in communication, support teacher’s objectives for the lesson and various experiments in the use of methods and
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