ANALYZING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ADMIRATIONS AND AVERSIONS FOR ENGLISH AND URDU LANGUAGE TEACHERS
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The article deals with admirations and aversions the secondary school students have for the teachers engaged in teaching Urdu and English languages at public schools. The study was conducted, through a questionnaire, on one hundred public sector male and female secondary school students to find out the traits, which the students like or dislike, of teachers engaged in teaching English and Urdu languages for their professional and academic future. The focus of the study was on the dimensions of personality pertaining to classroom behavior, teaching method, personal qualities and outward appearance of the teacher. The results of the study reflect that the students like their language teachers to be: democratic in decision making, strict in maintaining discipline, interested in students’ activities as a motivator of students, good user of A/V aids, facilitator of learning, truthful, humorous, fair and unbiased.
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