ABSTRACT
Many trainee Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teachers stress about the question of teaching in the target language (TL). Many languages teachers have quite strong views on the topic of TL, but the author would advise to find our own way and use the amount one feel most comfortable with. The author uses it as much as it feels natural to do, in particular interacting with students, but he says that he very rarely uses it when introducing a new grammar concept. There is an argument that one can teach a whole lesson in the TL, creating an immersion environment and persevering against all the odds in order not to fall back into English. This can provide its own challenges. It is obvious that, as a languages teacher, one have to speak the language in the classroom, and has to encourage students to do the same.
