摘要：The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between teachers’ professional experience and students’ perceptions of their relationships with teachers. It also investigates the influence of these perceptions of students toward the course and the teacher. Fourteen high school teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) and 436 students participated in the study. Teachers had a professional experience based on two years or less, or twenty years or more. Results showed that experienced teachers were perceived by students as significantly more co-operative than new teachers. There was no significant difference between influencing behaviors of experienced and new teachers. Students’ perceptions of relationships with teacher had a significant effect on their affect toward the course and the teacher. Effect of proximity was higher for both forms of affect.
