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A good teacher has the proper personal characteristics such as being kind, patient, and love teaching, as well as the proper skill such as the ability to motivate, have good class rapport, involve all students equally, correcting students without affecting motivation, and knowing student weaknesses. A teacher's role ranges from manager, organizer, assessor, prompter, participant, tutor, facilitator, model and observer. A good students characteristics include the willingness to listen, desire to experiment, willing to ask questions, acceptance of error, and a desire to learn. The type of student a person is can be affected by their learning experience, motivation, nervousness, language awareness, behavior problems, and life experience. An adult learner can have expectations and might be fixed in their previous learning experience. At post puberty age a learner can be unmotivated, self conscious, and unwilling to take risks. At pre-puberty age they can be more receptive. At a very young age they have short attention spans and are responsive to games. The levels of ability range from beginner, elementary, low intermediate, intermediate, upper intermediate, and advanced. Beginners have zero to basic knowledge. Elementary can form basic sentences and communicate simple topics. Low intermediate can communicate and understand basic structures but make many errors. Intermediate understand and communicate a wide rage of issues but lack fluency. Upper intermediate communicate on almost all topics but still lack accuracy. Advanced have great knowledge and study subtleties of language.
