Students' perceptions of effective teachers' behavior

The relationships between the teachers and the students are the basis of teaching and learning process. While people are learning a foreign language, they need a teacher to facilitate teaching and learning process and to lead them reach their educational objectives. Thus, effectiveness of the teacher has big influence both on learners and on process of teaching and learning.In this research, it was aimed to find out the ?Effective Teachers? Behavior (ETB)? used by the teachers in preparatory classes of Higher School of Foreign Languages in University of Gaziantep (HSFLUG). This study was carried out from students? perspective since they are at the core point of the teaching/learning process.The present study was conducted in the middle of the fall semester of 2008- 2009 academic year. 170 preparatory students at HSFLUG (n= 56 females and n= 114 males) participated in the study whose age ranged between 17 and 25. The data were collected through a developed questionnaire which had thirty-five items. The reliability of the questionnaire was .96.The data analyses were conducted by descriptive and inferential statistics. The analysis of the questionnaire disclosed that to what extent teachers have each behavior. Chi-square was applied for each item and it was understood that there were no significant difference between the English proficiency level of students and the way they evaluated their teachers. Significant difference was found only for eight items. Students? success was correlated with the scores that they gave to their teachers (r = -.063 and .411). As a result, no significant relationship between students? success and teachers? effectiveness was found. It was found that effective teachers? behavior does not effect on students? success (t=14.87 and p= .62).