Community Language Teaching

I. Activity • Recording
• Transcription
Song Association • Analysis
• Reflection and Observation
We’ll give a word and everyone has to • Listening
sing that word in a song. • Free Conversation

 Night Role of a Learner:

 Phone
 Late  Learning is not viewed as an
 Broke individual accomplishment but
as something that is achieved
 Woman
collaboratively.
 Whenever
 Become a member of a
community
II. Analysis  Learner = client
 Learn through counseling with
Charles A. Curran - A specialist in
their teacher and classmates
counseling and a professor of
psychology.
Role of a Teacher:
Teacher = Counselor; Learner = Client
 Plays the role of counselor
CLL is an example of Humanistic  Responds calmly and
Approach. nonjudgmentally
 Having a supportive manner
Five Stages:  Help the client to understand
the problems better
• In the first, birth stage, feeling of  Provide a safe environment.
security and belonging are
established. More specific teacher roles are:
• In the second, the learner
begins to achieve a sense of  Provide target language
independence from the teacher. translation
• By the third, the learner speaks  Monitoring learner utterances
independently.  Providing assistance when
• The fourth stage sees the requested
learner as secure enough to  May intervene directly to correct
take criticism. the problem
• By the last the learner merely  Advise on usage of grammar
works upon improving style and
knowledge of linguistic Procedure:
appropriateness.
1. Consists of six to twelve
Types of learning and teaching students sitting in a circle.
activities: 2. Students have visual contact
with each other.
• Translation 3. Teacher is out of the circle.
• Group Work
 4. Teacher walks behind the
students to provide assistance.

III. Abstraction

The Community Language

Learning method was developed by
Charles A. Curran, a professor of
psychology at Loyola University in
Chicago. This method refers to two
roles: that of the knower (teacher) and
student (learner). Also, the method
draws on the counseling metaphor and
refers to these respective roles as a
counselor and a client. According to
Curran, a counselor helps a client
understand his or her own problems
better by 'capturing the essence of the
clients concern ...and relating the
client's affect to cognition...;' in effect,
understanding the client and
responding in a detached yet
considerate manner.

To restate, the counselor blends

what the client feels and what he is
learning in order to make the
experience a meaningful one. Often,
this supportive role requires greater
energy expenditure than an 'average'
teacher.

IV. Evaluation

1. Compared to the previously

discussed language learning
methods, is Community
Language Learning better
(more effective) or not? Explain.
2. Suppose we’re in a CLL class.
Define your difficulties and/or
weaknesses in learning English
that you want to be addressed
together with the teacher
(counselor).