My first Magazine. Wilber Alemán MAGAZINE TEACHING 1 WILBER ALEMAN | Page 21

20. ttt
• TTT often means that the teacher is
giving the students information that
they could be finding out for
themselves, such as grammar rules, the
meanings of vocabulary items and
corrections. Teacher explanations alone
are often tedious, full of terminology
and difficult to follow. There may be no
indication of whether the students
have understood.
• If the teacher takes the dominant role
in classroom discourse in terms of
initiating the topic, allocating turns and
evaluating comments, the student’s
role is only that of respondent.
Opportunities for developing the
speaking skill are therefore severely
limited