Teacherʼs role in efl classes Content: Introduction Main body

The aims of the course paper: In English Language Teaching (ELT), especially, when English is connected to class room teaching (CRT), it plays a very significant role in engrossing the student’s attention. In this regard, the Teacher plays a very prominent role in attracting the student’s attention by creating interest among the students. A Teacher should play various roles such as Learner, Facilitator, Assessor, Manager and Evaluator. Before teaching the students a teacher has to first

place herself as a learner and think from the learners perspective. In doing so, students can be captured with interest. In the classroom, Teacher roles can be discussed with learners as a part of student preparation, along with other characteristics of curriculum. Learners can imagine about what roles they wish for their teacher, how this inclination fits in with other aspects of their learning method, and why the teacher chooses every role. Educating is just one of the various things, and as a teacher one has to perform all these various things for educating the pupils.

A teacher is the individual in the classroom who has the proficiency, tools and information necessary to edify young students. In this fast growing world, there are abundant changes in teaching approaches along with the learning strategies. Besides Parents, Teacher’s play a very crucial role in developing a child’s interest towards a subject or the language. Teacher should thus become a learner by thinking about the situation by understanding it through different point of view, before teaching students and by making them relevant in everyday circumstances. The profession of teaching English as a foreign language has been a demanding and complicated process; teaching does not only mean giving the grammatical rules, teaching vocabulary, practicing reading and writing and evaluating students. Teachers’ biggest problem, particularly the teachers, is how to motivate students to learn and how to maintain this motivation for maximal classroom learning . The teacher should not be threatening authority in the classroom, but rather a teacher should teach the students to be their own managers so that the teacher would not be seen as despot and strict. Teachers should know how to manage the class and teach students to

manage themselves. On the other hand it is believed that sometimes teachers and

students see things differently, and the differences in perceptions between the teacher and students contribute to discipline problems. In order to reduce differences, the teachers’ role should be clear to everyone. Teachers should be proactive facilitator, imaginative classroom manager. Suggested that students’ expectations and opinions about the role of the teacher are good starting points for beginning to understand and meet students’ needs.Teachers need to know more about the skills required of the teacher who wishes to encourage good language learning. The teachers’ roles and emphasized particularly the role of the teacher as a manager. Perceptions of the language teachers’ roles have changed considerably.

Recntly, language teachers are no longer seen exclusively as individuals who hold and transmit language to the class, but they are seen as people who assist the learner to develop a natural capacity to communicate in another language.