This also includes the teacher's ability to be clear in the classroom and to change modes of presentation and types of questions. The teacher is also supposed to be able to engage students in the learning process, to provide opportunities for feedback and to use group and individual activities so as to bring students' initiative into full play. The teacher should have patience, confidence, imagination, enthusiasm, humor and creativity. 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.
People learn to speak and listen by doing it successfully.
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. 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. 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.