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Community Language Learning method of teaching

2021

  • BY
  • Angela Mariño
  • Ginnete Coronel
  • Yuridza Gómez

Didactics of a foreign language

His application of psychological counseling techniques to learning is known as Counseling-Learning.

Curran believed that a way to deal with the fears of students is for teachers to become ‘language counselors’.

it means someone who is a skillful understander of the struggle students face as they attempt to internalize another language

Specialist in counseling and professor of psychology

Charles A. Curran

Community Language Learning draws on the counseling metaphor to redefine the roles of the teacher (the counselor) and the learners (the clients) in the language classroom (Richards and Rodgers, 2007: 113)

  • The teacher recognizes how to threatening a new learning situation can be for adults learners, so he skillfully understands and supports his students.
  • The teacher who can ‘understand’ can indicate his acceptance of the student. By understanding students’ fears and being sensitive to them, he can help students overcome their negative feelings and turn them into positive energy to further their learning

the students feel relax and confident in the learning-teaching process , and use the target language.

Procedures CLL in Writing Class

The teacher divides the class to some groups, which each group with 4-5 students. This way aims to make students feel enjoy and lees students’ fear.

The teacher greets students in their native language and foreign language. The students’ native language is used to make the meaning clear and to build a bridge from the known to the unknown.

Then, the teacher explains to the students about the recount text such as the kind of text, purpose of text, the organization, the grammar use.

The teacher tells the students what they are going to do.

The teacher asks to the students to write one vocabulary (verb 1) that they think in native language. Then, the teacher helps the students translate their vocabulary.

Procedures CLL in Writing Class

Next, the teacher asks to the students to make a sentence (past tense) use their vocabulary and combines with other students in the group into one paragraph recount.

In the end of the class there is no homework for the students.

it creates a warm, sympathetic and trusting relationship between teacher and learner

The counselor allow the learners to determine type of conversation and to analyze the language inductively.

train student to become independet

The students centered nature of the method can provide extrinsic motivation and capitalize on intrinsic motivation

Advantages

Translation is an intricate and difficult task. The success of the method relies largely on the translation expertise of the counselor.

Disadvantages

The method relies completely on inductive learning. It is worthwhile noting that deductive learning is also a viable strategy of learning.

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