Psychological Elements and Personality
The teacher should have patience, confidence, imagination, enthusiasm, humor and creativity. He/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. He/she also needs to acquire the following abilities, as suggested by Stephen Tchudi and Diana Mitchell in Explorations in the Teaching of English:
Oral language involves a complex interaction of speaker and listener, of voice, tone, style, intonation, nonverbal expression... the spoken language cannot truly be "taught". People learn to speak and listen by doing it successfully. Conversely, they become inarticulate and inept when their oral language experiences are unsuccessful or constrained...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. x(p270)