Counselling - approach

Teacher acts as a counselor

Learner - a client and collaborator
involves psychological aspect
students work together to develop-skill of a
language
developed by Charles A. Curran and his association
called Counseling-Learning theory
What are the five stages of Community
Language Learning?
Community language learning
Stage 1- Reflection.
Stage 2 - Recorded conversation.
Stage 3 - Discussion.
Stage 4 - Transcription.
Stage 5 - Language analysis.
in-a-circle seating for learners
recorder inside circle
teacher outside
TL dialogue generated learner by learner (helped as
necessary by teacher)
recorded dialogue transcribed by teacher on board
advantages of Community Language
Learning?
Works well with lower level students who are
struggling in spoken English,
lower students anxiety
overcome threatening affective filter
create a warm sympathetic and trusting relationship
between teacher and learners
train students become independent
counselor allow to learners to determine
What is the difference between communicative language
teaching and community language learning?
CLT provides detailed objectives including
functional skills as well as linguistic objectives
while CLL has no predetermined objectives at all.
Such objectives will promote well-defined materials,
which will mostly be authentic as well, to encourage
learners' communication.
What is community language learning?
Community language learning (CLL) is a language-
teaching approach 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.
Why is it called community language
learning?
Community Language Learning (CLL) is a language
teaching method which involves psychological
aspect and students work together to develop
what skill of a language they would like to learn.
This method firstly developed by Charles A. Curran
and his association which is called Counseling-
Learning theory.
What is the characteristics of community
language learning?
Typical features of a CLL lesson:

in-a-circle seating for learners. recorder inside

circle and teacher outside. TL dialogue generated
learner by learner (helped as necessary by teacher)
recorded dialogue transcribed by teacher on board.
How does community language
learning work in the classroom?
Community language learning (CLL) is an approach in
which students work together to develop what aspects
of a language they would like to learn. The teacher
acts as a counsellor and a paraphraser, while the
learner acts as a collaborator, although sometimes
this role can be changed.
What are the advantages of Community
Language Learning?
Advantages of CLL: Works well with lower level
students who are struggling in spoken English, lower
students anxiety and overcome threatening affective
filter, it create a warm sympathetic and trusting
relationship between teacher and learners, train
students become independent, counselor allow to
learners to determine
What is the fundamental aim of Community
Language Learning method?
What is the fundamental aim of Community
Language Learning method? To enable learners to
read literature written in the target language.
Who develop the Community Language
Learning?
Charles A. Curran
Community Language Learning (CLL) is the name of a
method developed by Charles A. Curran and his
associates. Curran was a specialist in counseling and a
professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.
What is the teachers role in community
language learning?
The teacher: The teacher's initial role is primarily
that of a counselor. This means that the teacher
recognizes how threatening a new learning situation,
can be for adult learners, so he skillfully understands
and supports his students in their struggle to master
the target language.
What is the role of the students in the
community language learning?
Students transcribe utterances and conversations
they have recorded for practice and analysis of
linguistic forms. 5. Analysis. Students analyze and
study transcriptions of target language sentences in
order to focus on particular lexical usage or on the
application of particular grammar rules.
When was community language learning
created?
1970s
Community Language Learning (CLL) is the name of
the method developed in the 1970s by Charles A.
Curran and his associates at Loyola University in
Chicago.
Community language learning
সম্প্রদায়ের ভাষা শেখা একটি ভাষা-শিক্ষার পদ্ধতির যা গ্রুপ-
আগ্রহের শিক্ষার উপর দৃষ্টি নিবদ্ধ করে। এটি কাউন্সেলিং-পদ্ধতির
উপর ভিত্তি করে যেখানে শিক্ষক পরামর্শদাতা এবং প্যারাফ্রেজার
হিসাবে কাজ করেন, যখন শিক্ষানবিশকে ক্লায়েন্ট এবং সহযোগী
হিসাবে দেখা হয়। উইকিপিডিয়া (ইংরেজি)
Community Language
Learning
Source: Approaches and Methods in ELT by Richards
and Rodgers

Thank you all