To Use or not to Use the Mother Tongue

To use the mother tongue or not to use? This is a question that worries nearly all the EFL teachers. Some are proud of not using it at all, and their students most often lack accuracy and flexibility in their speech, others use it unnecessarily too much forgetting that they are English teachers, and their students can't communicate in English at all. So, to use the mother tongue or not to use?
I think it is like eating bread. If we don't eat any bread at all, we'll lack some vital nourishing elements, on the other hand if we eat too much fresh and warm bread we'll be intoxicated.

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