who can help me with finding the grammatical mistakes 4 SINGS OF CLT IN YOUR CLASSROOM ! Edit post Published on August 25, 2016 When you ask a naive teacher to talk about the Method he/she uses in the classroom, you may face a long pause, or an obscure answer. If you go through different  theories and criticizes of previous Methods like the GTM  and Audiolingual, you will fitness why they have been watered down. the core dull reasons were : • learners dont not have the opportunity to make an active knowledge in GTM, Most of the class time is invested on reading and translation, and why this method is still used by some teachers, is because it has some positive impacts on reading knowledge of a second language.   • One of the weak points of Audiolingual or Army Method  is that the Method will fail in creating the long term communicative proficiency. the class is overflowed with drillings and over learning activities, of- course these methods are useful if they are used in the right time, but language is not something to be learned by mimicry and habit formation, we have use the spice of creativity in our teaching Method. Back to the point, I've asked the question from different teachers both naive and experienced, most of the times the answer is CLT Method, but after observing their class in one or two session, some contradiction is spotted, they use the weak points mentioned above, unwillingly, i think the problem arises from ignorance, so here are some eclectic tips helping you to figure out if you are using CLT Method:   1 Dialogues are used but they are not memorized, teacher tries to encourage the students to use it as an example for creating their own Dialogues.  2 language is often created by individuals by trial and error, Fluency is the primary goal of this Method, so errors are welcomed, we are trying to make meaningful communication so we won't sacrifice Fluency for Accuracy. 3 translation is used where students need or benefit from it. 4 Most of the class time is used for pair work or group work. so the role of teacher is more like a leader not an all-knowing character, commutation is the core of CLT Method, so if TTT in your classroom is more than STT you have to rethink your lesson plan. I hope you find this post helpful.