Abstract:
Creating an environment where learners are no longer dependent on the teacher is the main reflection
of a learner centered classroom. In a language learning classroom, students learn the skills to read,
write, listen and speak. The best way to learn and teach a foreign language is to use that language. The
purpose of communicative language teaching approach is to communicate in the target language or to
use it in communication. In the communication there must be interaction between teacher and student
or student and student. According to my colleagues and my experience, though the door for classroom
interaction is very open students' participation is very poor in some classes. This paper attempts to test
this hypothesis and provides some systematically tested ways to increase the amount of Student Talk
Time (STT) which leads to a learner centered approach.
