Community language learning

COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING

By Charles A. Curran.

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY

CounselingCounseling: Is one person giving advice, assistance, and support to another who has a problem or is in some way in need.

Apprehend:Apprehend:  [àppri hénd] become aware of something: to become aware of something by use of the senses (formal).

Ontogenetic Ontogenetic : development of individual to maturity: the development of an individual from a fertilized ovum to maturity, as contrasted with the development of a group or species phylogeny.

CHARLES A. CURRANCHARLES A. CURRAN

Curran was a specialist in counseling and a professor of psychology at Loyola University.

COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING

Represents the use of Counseling –

Learning theory to teach the language.

HUMANISTIC TECHNIQUES HUMANISTIC TECHNIQUES MOSKOWITZ 1978MOSKOWITZ 1978

Engage the whole person, including the emotions and feelings as well as linguistic knowledge and behavioral skills.

THEORY OF LG AND LEARNINGTHEORY OF LG AND LEARNING

The FLL task are “ to apprehend the sound system, assign fundamental meanings, and to construct a basic grammar of the foreign

lg.”

LG AS SOCIAL PROCESSLG AS SOCIAL PROCESS(LA FORGE 1983)(LA FORGE 1983)

THE PROCESS OF LEARNER’S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE TEACHER.

SARDSARD

DESIGN

Emerges from the interaction between the learner’s expressed communicative intentions and teacher’s reformulations .

Is to provide a conveyance for these meanings in a way appropriate to the learner’s proficiency level.

Supportive roleInteraction ( monitor

learner utterances )

SYLLABUS TEACHER’S RESPONSABILITY

Translation. Group work. Recording. Analysis. Reflection and

observation. Listening. Free conversation.

Help the client try to understand.

May be developed by the teacher as the course develops.

CLL mix of task and activities Counselors

Materials

PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

Learners face to face.

Period of silence. Knower use the

volunteer to brake the silence.

Questions.

PROTOCOL OF WHAT A FIRST DAY’S CLL CLASS COVERED.

1. Informal greetings

2. Teacher made a statement of the goals and guidelines.

3. A conversation in the FL took place•A circle•ss.Message in L1•Instructor : whispered message in L2•Repeated

4. Reflection period

5. Materials recorded the instructor use the sentence (L2 inf.

6. Ss asked questions about items

7. Ss copy sentences from the board with notes on meaning and usage.

REFERENCES REFERENCES

Curran, C. A. 1976. Counseling- Learning in second languges.Aplle River, III,

Apple River Press.

La Forge.P.G. 1975a. Community language learning : A pilot Study. Language Learning 21 (1):45-61

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