Community language learning
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Community language learning (CLL) is a language-teaching approach[1] focused on group-interest learning.
It is based on the counselling-approach in which the teacher acts as a counselor and a paraphraser, while the learner is seen as a client and collaborator.
Background
[edit]The CLL approach was developed by Charles Arthur Curran, a Jesuit priest,[2] professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and counseling specialist.[3]
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.[4]
Methods
[edit]Natural approach
[edit]Online communities
[edit]These types of communities have recently arisen with the explosion of educational resources for language learning on the Web.
Barriers
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
- ^ American Journal of Psychotherapy (1955). COTF BIO. p. 123.
- ^ Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
- ^ Richards, Jack C (1986:138)