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Personal styles kind creative resourceful well-prepared accurate caring dynamic patient attentive flexible enthusiastic disciplined authoritative warm-hearted intuitive humorous professionally-trained hardworking fair reflective How can one become a good language teacher? The most important and most difficult part of the making of a good language teacher is the development of professional competence, which is the quality of being qualified for the profession, and armed with a specific range of skills, strategies, knowledge and ability. What is teaching? Some people think teaching is a craft, a novice teacher can learn the profession by imitating the expert’s techniques, just like an apprentice. Others hold the view that teaching is an applied science, based on scientific knowledge and experimentation. By making a compromise between these two views, Wallace (1991) uses a ‘reflective model’ to demonstrate the development of professional competence. What is teaching? Teacher’s professional development (Adapted from Wallace, 1991: 15) Language development Stage 1 Others’ experience Received knowledge Own experience Practice Reflection Professional competence Stage 2 Goal Teacher’s professional development (Adapted from Wallace, 1991:15) Language development Stage 1 Others’ experience Received knowledge Own experience Practice Reflection Professional competence Stage 2 Goal Teacher’s professional development (Adapted from Wallace, 1991:15) Language development Stage 1 Others’ experience Received knowledge Own experience Practice Reflection Professional competence Stage 2 Goal learning practice reflection The learning stage The purposeful preparation that a language normally receives before he/she starts the practice of teaching. Others’ experience Received knowledge Own experience Learning from others’ experience — craft 2. Learning the received knowledge —‘applied science’ knowledge 3. Learning from one’s own experiences as a learner The prac