What’s your biggest pet peeve in the Assistant Language Teacher world?My biggest pet peeve is over translating. You are in the classroom and you are going through greetings,weather or whatever at the beginning of the lesson.And thank god that the T1 has joined in the lesson but is translating every single word you say into Japanese. Soon you see the student’s eyes shift from you to the T1. The T1 is providing all the answers and you in a sense will slowly disappear. Later when it comes to you asking a student a question they will search frantically for the T1 for the answer. After all the T1 provided it before,before and before.Solution…You can politely tell them not to translate in class. You can tell them English as much as possible in class please. But working in public school you and the teacher might have not had that meeting. Or you made the whole lesson plan and the T1 decided to run up and translate everything right there on the spot.As for me, I would shut them down because the basis of the lesson is communication not translating everything verbatim. Hopefully maybe they learned how to communicate to you on how they want things for next time. Jay Onyskin