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ualified English teacher should take special training courses and have enough knowledge of English. However, in many middle schools, teachers who don’t have qualification of English teaching are still giving classes to their students. They even teach their strong accent to the students.
These problems make great affection on students’ English learning, but besides these, teachers’ attitudes are important too. Especially in junior schools, English teachers do not respect students, they make a favorite of the students who are good at English learning, and their attitudes aren’t equal. This thesis is based on the teachers’ attitudes.

Ⅰ. Attitude and Teachers’ Attitudes
Before research teacher's attitudes, we must understand the meaning of attitude. What is attitude? Social psychologists generally define attitudes as relatively lasting clusters of feelings, beliefs, and behavior tendencies directed toward specific persons, ideas, objects, or groups.
The word attitude (from Latin) is defined within the framework of social psychology as a subjective or mental preparation for action. It defines outward and visible postures and human beliefs. Attitudes determine what each individual will see, hear, think and do. They are rooted in experience and do not become automatic routine conduct.
Attitude means the individual's prevailing tendency to respond favorably or unfavorably to an object (person or group of people, institutions or events). Attitudes can be positive or negative. Social psychologists distinguish and study three components of the responses: the first is cognitive component, which is the knowledge about an attitude object, whether accurate or not; the second is affective component: feelings towards the object and the third is conative or behavioral component, which is the action taken towards the object.
So teacher's attitude toward students is a relatively enduring orientation that teacher develops toward students and their behaviors.
A. The Importance of School Environment
Generally speaking, “Teacher is engineer of human souls ", Teachers are the most important in social education. The school environment has been described as "the second most important social environment for the child after family". Hence, it can also be said that the teacher is the second most important figure in the child's life after family.

B. Factors Affecting Teachers’ Attitude
Many elements, internal and external, can affect teacher attitude. Teacher's own features is the most internal influent element, while the external factors include students' influence, the relationship with peers and students' parents and so on.
Students' characteristics, appearance, school-life performance and forth on, all can affect teacher's attitude toward them. Usually, to some extent, inevitably, teachers will favor the students who are like him, who can get high academic achievement. We can't say it is wrong, but as a teacher, he is the teacher of the whole class, not some certain students. So he should decrease the degree of liking certain students.
On the other hand, if a teacher can't get along will with peers, he must have the need to work off the negative feelings on his students or to use students to fulfill his own emotional and social needs. If a teacher can't get on well with some student's parents, as he might feel intellectually or socially, superior to them, he can hardly avoid inappropriate attitude toward