COMMUNITY LANGUAGE LEARNING

v  Historical Overview

-          Developed by Charles A. Curran and his associates in Chicago.

-          Influenced by Carl Rogers’ humanistic psychology.

v  Introduction

·         CLL represents the use of Counseling-Learning theory to teach language.

·         In humanistic psychology, Curran found that person often feel threatened by a new learning situation or fear that they will appear foolish. 

·         A way to deal with the fears of students is for teachers to become language counselors.

·         CLL advises teachers to take their students as “whole person.”

v  T – S Relationship

         I.   ROLE

·      Teacher’s Role :  a counsellor

·      Student’s Role  :  a client

       II.   Interaction

·      Teacher – Student Centered

·      Teacher’s Part

·      Student’s Part

Ø  Teacher’s Part

-          Facilitate student’s ability to express something in target language.

-          Provide direction.

-          Structure the class.

Ø  Student’s Part

-          Become members of a community.

-          Be assertive to have conversation.

-          Take more and more responsibility.

-          Interact with each other.

v GOALS

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

-    They want their students to learn about their own learning.

-    They want their students to learn how to learn from one another.

v  The Techniques of the CLL Method

Ø Tape recording student conversation

This technique used to record student produce language as well as give the opportunity for community learning to come about.

Ø Transcription

Students make the transcription of their conversation that have been recorded.

Ø Reflection on Experience

The teacher give the students the opportunity to reflect on how they feel about the language Learning experience. Themselves as learners, and their relationship with one another.

Ø Reflective Listening

The students relax and listen to their own voices speaking the target language on the tape.

Ø Human Computer

A student chooses some part of the transcript to practice pronouncing

Ø Small Group Task

Small groups might be asked to make new sentences with the words on the transcript. Then, groups shared the sentences they made with the rest of the class.

v  Conclusion

-          Learning is persons: whole-person language takes place best in a relationship of trust, support, and cooperation between teacher and students and among students.

-          CLL places unusual demands on language teacher. They must be highly proficient and familiar to the role of counselor. So, special training in CLL technique is usually required.