... some distinctive characteristics of this method compared to others: + separation of the skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing – and the primacy of the audio-lingual over the graphic ... understand the strengths and shortcomings of these methods. In order to have a suitable method, the teacher should take some of the following factors into consideration including learners, teaching ... Teachers’ roles in speaking activities With an increasing concern about the CLT approach in foreign language teaching and learning, in which learners are the centre of the lesson, the roles of a teacher...