Author(s)

Qiwei Wei ¹, Xia Sun ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun, Guizhou, 558000, China
² The Middle School Attached to Qiannan Normal University for Nationalities, Duyun, Guizhou, 558000, China

Corresponding Author

Qiwei Wei

ABSTRACT

This study was designed to examine the features of quality English teachers as considered by 199 students in the Middle School Attached to QNUN. The study aimed to investigate the perceptions of overall features of quality English teachers, and the variations of students' opinions according to their English language performance and gender. The overall features of quality English teachers were obtained through an open-ended questionnaire. 32 features of quality English teachers emerged as a result of the content analysis of 27 sets of the open-ended questionnaire. The questionnaire as the main instrument for the data collection was generated, and the Cronbach alpha coefficient was .95. The findings revealed that half of the emergent features of quality English teachers fell in the socio-affective aspect (15 items) followed by the meta-cognitive aspect (9 items) and the cognitive aspect (8 items) respectively. When the two variables were taken into consideration, significant differences in opinions of features of quality English teachers were found to be related to the students' gender but not the level of their English language performance. 

KEYWORDS

Quality, English teachers, Junior high school students

CITE THIS PAPER

Qiwei Wei, Xia Sun, Junior Middle School Students' Opinions on Quality English Teachers: a Study at the Middle School Attached to QNUN. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 76-82. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.061110.

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