“育人是素质教育的根本。”它体现了时代发展的特征,使受教育者在教育活动中处于主体教育的基点之上,因此,素质教育观念的先行者与实践者,当推教师本身。提高教师素质是推进素质教育的基本保证。根据英语素质教育的特点和内容,笔者从以下几方面探索新时期英语教师必须具备的素质,旨在提高英语教学质量,满足学生在未来职业中既懂英语又具备综合素质的需求。一、英语素质教育的特点英语作为一种语言,它自身的特点就决定了它不能被机械地 “It is the foundation of quality education. ” It embodies the characteristics of the development of the times, so that educated people in the educational activities in the main point of education above, therefore, the concept of quality education, pioneer and practitioner, when pushing teachers itself. Improving the quality of teachers is the basic guarantee to promote quality education. According to the characteristics and content of English quality education, the author explores the qualities that English teachers must have in the new era from the following aspects. The purpose is to improve the quality of English teaching and satisfy students’ needs of both English and comprehensive qualifications in their future careers. First, the characteristics of English quality education English as a language, its own characteristics determine that it can not be mechanically