Abstract In oral English teaching, students are the implementers, while teachers play different roles during this process. Teachers are conductors, guiding students to start activities. They are directors, designing scenarios for the activities and assigning roles to students. They are also critics, evaluating students’ oral expression appropriately. The appropriateness of roles that teachers play can change the traditional oral English teaching which is teacher-centered. In this way, teachers can develop students’ initiatives to a large extent and improve their abilities of oral expression in English.
Language is a subject. It is also a kind of tools and means [1, 2]. Human beings communicate with each other by way of languages, jointly contributing to the formation of the global village [3, 4]. Spoken language is an important form and means to realizing the value of languages. Correspondingly, oral English teaching is one of the most important contents in English teaching [5, 6]. In many colleges in China, classes in oral English are opened or added for students to develop English application talents, which indicates the important status of oral English in English teaching. Teachers are the organizers and implementers in oral English classes. They have great influence on the effects and quality of the classes [7, 8].
Therefore, it is essential to strengthen the research on the role positioning of teachers in oral English teaching so that the quality of oral English teaching can be improved. It is also very important to improve the forms of oral teaching
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