In the eyes of Turkish EFL learners: what makes an effective foreign language teacher? Çelik, Servet Arıkan, Arda Caner, Mustafa Effective EFL Language teacher Foreign language Teacher qualities Research on the qualities of successful teachers in Turkey indicates that students consider teacher effectiveness as the ability to ensure an environment in which positive student-teacher interaction can take place. However, further studies are needed to clarify students’ perceptions of the qualities of effective foreign language teachers, in particular, thus providing educators with necessary information concerning the implementation of language teacher development programs. Therefore, 998 undergraduate students at a state university in Turkey were asked to complete a survey concerning the qualities they believed are characteristic of a successful English language teacher. The results provide a detailed profile of university English as a foreign language (EFL)students’ perceptions with respect to pedagogy-specific knowledge, personality traits, professional skills and classroom behavior. 2013-06 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Çelik, S.; Arıkan, A.; Caner, M. In the eyes of Turkish EFL learners: what makes an effective foreign language teacher?. Porta Linguarum, 20: 287-297 (2013). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/18114] 1697-7467 D.L.: GR 43-2004 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/18114 10.30827/Digibug.18114 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Universidad de Granada