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This study brings together insights from research on teaching and learning in specific subjects, learning environments research, and effectiveness research, by linking teacher interpersonal behaviour to students' subject-related attitudes. Teaching was studied in terms of a model originating from clinical psychology that was adapted to education. Teacher interpersonal behaviour was analysed in terms of two, independent behaviour dimensions called Influence and Proximity. This study investigated the added value of students' perceptions of teacher interpersonal behaviour (after correction for covariates such as gender, report card grade, class size, etc.) on students' subject-specific motivation. Data of 52 third-year English as a Foreign Language (EFL)-classes (1041 students), taught by 32 secondary teachers, were included in the analyses. The study used multilevel analysis of variance to investigate the effect of …