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in which the students feel very satisfied with the class and their motivation and interest are aroused and they are acting as an equal member in the class like other students. Teachers’ roles (Wang Qiang, 2005) in creating English environment in classroom are shown as follows:Firstly, the teacher acts as a controller. The reform teaching approach often requires the teacher to acquire less teachercentered classroom management skills. It is the teacher’s responsibility to organize the classroom as an active and petitive learning atmosphere.Secondly, the teacher acts as a counselor. When the class is in process, the teacher may have to help students to get their message or make their meaning clear or even they should encourage students to overe their difficulties. This kind of good relationship between teacher and students can build up a kind and united atmosphere for learners’ learning.Thirdly, the teacher acts as a participant, when learners’ autonomy increases, teachers reduce their involvement in controlling classroom activities, and act as an equal member to students. The teacher may also join in, not as a director but as an equal member who will not improve his or her opinion or the students’. The teacher’s participation in students’ activities offers students a chance to practice the language and creates a best language environment for language learners.Fourthly, the teacher acts as a prompter. Whatever the teacher is doing in the classroom, the teacher’s ability to motivate the students, to arouse their interest and involve them in what they are doing, will be crucial. The key factors here will be the teachers own performance the teacher’s level of linguistic proficiency, the teacher’s organizing skills and the teacher’s personality.Therefore, a good teacher is a good organizer who acts as a controller, a counselor, a participant and a prompter in class and organizes his or her students successfully to plete a class. The teacher needs to provide students the most suitable classroom structure and guide the students with their good and kind behavior so as to bring about the best learning result. Using municative language teaching method The present Chinese English language syllabus is based on municative principles. According to this syllabus, the English language teachers are to build up the students’ municative petence and to develop their language skills as needed in their future career.However, it is obvious that the present situation of teaching approach has some problems and it should be reformed. Communicative language teaching model makes use of reallife situations that necessitate munication. The teacher sets up a situation that students are likely to encounter in real life. The reallife simulations change from day to day. Students’ motivation to learn es from their desire to municate in meaningful ways about meaningful topics. Teachers in municative classrooms will find themselves talking less, listening more and being active facilitators of their students’ learning. Creating English environmentBehaviorist accounts of SLA view the learner as “a language machine”. The linguistic environment is seen as the crucial determined factor (Ellis, 1985: 128).Classroom environment is an important word for language teachers. Communicative language teaching cannot keep away from the context for language speaking. Language must be used in some language context. In the area of municative language teaching, what classroom structure they use is the key point of munication teaching. Teachers should bring about a kind of cooperative, interpersonal and Englishspeaking cultural context which gives rise to the language the students are trying to learn (Dai Yun, 2005). Teachers should let students learn how to municate with others in the best learning environment created by our teachers. The best classroom environment is a kind of class in which the students are warmly interested in learning language. They acplish the teaching class together. Everyone has desire to express his or her feelings or thoughts. The class provides a social situation in which every learner uses the language. Under this situation, the students’ municative petence can be improved quickly. We can say that the relation between the classroom environment and the municative petence is just like the relation between the living things and the water. One can’t achieve a lot without another one.According to the teachers’ roles in the municative language teaching, teachers should create an easy atmosphere where students can use their language skills freely in class or after the class so as to create language environment. As we all know, only when students have the needs to municate, will they be active in speaking English. Therefore, teachers should try their best to create a language environment that is similar to the real situation. It is said that an English environment is hard to make, but students can have an English environment. For example, there are English environment TV on Pearl, World and CCTV9. Students can listen to English songs by MP3 and visit English Website to get information, etc.. Naturally, students can get used to this English circumstance which exerting a part to improve their oral English ability. Encouraging students to speak English According to the author’s practical teaching in the senior high school and responding to the students’ different motivation, how does the teacher encourage the students to speak English?Students usually hate practicing what seems to be familiar enough to them. The teacher should try to bine the old with new in conducting oral practice so that the students will have a feeling of achievement from the practice. Some students are not reluctant to do creative work in class because they feel embarrassed if they give a bad performance, so oral activities should be made relatively easy for students. If the teacher assigns an open topic they s