Community Language Learning By Charles A. Learner
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. His application of psychological counseling techniques to learning is known as Counseling-Learning. Community Language Learning represents the use of Counseling-Learning theory to teach languages.
Context of the lesson and the class
I have been watching a video entitled Community Language Learning who explained by Bonnie Mennell. In this video, the teacher thought a college student. The material is about the meaning and pronunciation of students generated vocabulary for describing the house. The objectives of this method are students …show more content…
Learning is not viewed as an individual accomplishment but as something that is achieved collaboratively. Learners are expected to listen attentively to the teacher, to freely provide meanings they wish to express, to repeat target utterances without hesitation, to support fellow members of the community, to report deep inner feelings and frustrations as well as joy and pleasure, and to become counselors to other learners. CLL has been used in larger schools classes where special grouping arrangements are necessary, such as organizing learners in temporary pairs in facing parallel …show more content…
In addition, retention is thought to be enhanced when learners respond physically. The teacher’s commands do increase in complexity but it is important that she not move too quickly. Students should feel successful as feelings of success and low anxiety facilitate learning. Also, when the students do make an error, correction should be carried out in a nonthreatening manner, perhaps by just repeating the command, and giving students an opportunity to self correct.
From time to time the teacher changes the order in which she issues commands so students do not memorize fixed routines. She also gives commands which combine previous imperatives in unexpected ways as students need to understand more than the commands used in the training. Besides, novelty is also motivating and can be fun. Language learning is more effective when it’s
Context of the lesson and the class
I have been watching a video entitled Community Language Learning who explained by Bonnie Mennell. In this video, the teacher thought a college student. The material is about the meaning and pronunciation of students generated vocabulary for describing the house. The objectives of this method are students …show more content…
Learning is not viewed as an individual accomplishment but as something that is achieved collaboratively. Learners are expected to listen attentively to the teacher, to freely provide meanings they wish to express, to repeat target utterances without hesitation, to support fellow members of the community, to report deep inner feelings and frustrations as well as joy and pleasure, and to become counselors to other learners. CLL has been used in larger schools classes where special grouping arrangements are necessary, such as organizing learners in temporary pairs in facing parallel …show more content…
In addition, retention is thought to be enhanced when learners respond physically. The teacher’s commands do increase in complexity but it is important that she not move too quickly. Students should feel successful as feelings of success and low anxiety facilitate learning. Also, when the students do make an error, correction should be carried out in a nonthreatening manner, perhaps by just repeating the command, and giving students an opportunity to self correct.
From time to time the teacher changes the order in which she issues commands so students do not memorize fixed routines. She also gives commands which combine previous imperatives in unexpected ways as students need to understand more than the commands used in the training. Besides, novelty is also motivating and can be fun. Language learning is more effective when it’s