TEACHER
TALKING
TIME (TTT)
The development of Communicative Language Teaching
(CLT) brought with it a methodology which emphasized
communication in the classroom, pair and group activities
and student involvement in the learning process.
Why reduce TTT? Negative uses of TTT.
• If the teacher talks for half the time in a 60 minute lesson
with 15 students, each student gets only 2 minutes to
speak. STT (student talking time)
• If the teacher is constantly dominant and controlling, the
learners take no responsibility for their own learning but
learn what the teacher decides and when. Student
autonomy is thus limited.