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TTT
There are advantages and disadvantages to TTT. It is not easy to reduce TTT
when talking to the students is a natural thing to do and when there is inevitably
a theatrical side to language teaching. In certain cultures, there is also a
tradition of ‘chalk and talk’ which influences the expectations and behavior of
both teachers and students.
REFLECTION:
mmmmm The
“banking concept,” as
termed by Freire, is
essentially
act while
that students are talking more during the activities in the
This
method is an that
hinders the
intellectual
classroom,
you
will have the opportunity to make more corrections that can
growth
of
students
by
learn.
turning them into,
figuratively speaking,
comatose “receptors”
and “collectors” of
information that have
no real connection to
their lives.
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