摘要：Teachers’ beliefs are important for understanding and improving educational process. They closely guide language teachers to adopt their teaching strategies for coping with their daily language teaching challenges, influence their general well-being, and in turn, shape language learners’ learning environment, their motivation and their language achievement and ability. This essay studies some previous researches on teachers’ beliefs, and analyzes the role of three teachers’ beliefs in the language teaching-learning process. The first part clarifies the concept of teachers’ beliefs, the second part illustrates three essential teachers’ beliefs about learners, learning and teachers themselves, and their role in the language teaching-learning process, the third part is the conclusion, which is consistent with the concept of teachers’ beliefs.
关键词：teachers’ beliefs; the language teaching-learning; learners; teachers
