The role of college English teachers is very important, but in actual teaching practice, college
students’ expectations of the role of college English teachers are likely to be different from the presentation
of the role of college English teachers, forming a role distance. Many domestic and foreign scholars have
conducted multi-angle research on the role distance of college English teachers, and have achieved fruitful
results. Based on the analysis and summary of these results, this article briefly reviews the research status,
and points out the problems in the current research and the direction of future research, and provides
references for further research.