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At the simplest level, teacher talk time (TTT) refers to how much the teacher talks during a lesson. A consequence of this was the belief that the teacher’s presence in the classroom should be reduced.Many training courses based on CLT insisted that teacher talking time (TTT) was counterproduct ive and that teachers should reduce TTT for a number of reasons: Excessive TTT limits the amount of STT (student talking time). Claudia Quezada