Community Language Learning

Presented by : Fabiola Méndez Farfán

Community Language Learning /CLL/ respresents the use of Counseling-Learning theory to teach language.

In humanistic psycology Charles A. Curran found that a person often feel threatened by a new learning situation or fear that they will apprear foolish.

It is a way to deal with the fears of students is for teachers to become language counselors.

CLL advises teachers to take their students as a «whole person»

Characteristics of CLL Method

Important aspects of CLL

S• Security• Non-threatening learning enviroment.

A• Agression and Attention• Opportunity for Ss to assert and involve themselves to attend to many

factors simultaneously

R• Reflection and Retention• Ss stop and consider the active experience they are having with

the integration of the new material that takes place within the whole self

D• Discrimination• Ss sort out the differences among target language forms such as

Human Computer

Teachers want their students to learn how to use the taget language communicatively.

Students learn about their own learning.

Students learn how to learn from one another.

Goals

Native language is permitted among students.

Language is for communication.

Translation will be provided by the teacher.

Teacher «counseils» the students.

This method is specially created for adult learner who might fear to appear foolish.

Students apply the target language independently when they feel confident enough to do so.

Students are encouraged to express how they feel about the learning process.

Basic Principles

T – Ss Relationship

Teacher’s part

To facilitate student’s ability to express something in a target language.

To provide direction.

To Structure the class.

Student’s part

To become memebers of a community.

To be assertive

To take more and more responsibility

To interact with each other.

Roles in the CLL Method

A counselor A Client

Role of the Teacher Role of the Student

Techniques

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Communicative Language Learning