COMMUNITY

LANGUAGE LEARNING

CLL

Historical Overview
Developed by Charles A.
Curran and his associates in
Chicago.
Influenced by Carl Rogers
humanistic psychology.

Introduction
CLL represents the use of CounselingLearning 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.

T S Relationship
I.

ROLE
Teachers Role : a counsellor
Students Role : a client

T S Relationship
II.

Interaction
Teacher
Student
Centered

Teachers
Part

Students
Part

T S Relationship
Teachers
Teachers Part
Part

Facilitate
students ability
to express
something in
target
language.
Provide
direction.
Structure the
class.

Students
Students Part
Part

Become members
of a community.
Be assertive to
have
conversation.
Take more and
more
responsibility.
Interact with each
other.

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.

The Techniques
Method

of

the

CLL

Tape recording student

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

The Techniques of the CLL Method

Transcription

Students make the transcription

of their conversation that have
been recorded.

The Techniques of the CLL

Method
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.

The Techniques of the CLL

Method

Reflective

ReflectiveListening
Listening

The
students
relax
and
listen
to
The students relax and listen to
their
their own
own voices
voices speaking
speaking the
the
target
targetlanguage
languageon
onthe
thetape.
tape.

The Techniques of the CLL

Method
Human

Computer

A student chooses some part of the

transcript to practice pronouncing.

The Techniques of the CLL

Method
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.

The Important Aspects in

CLL

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A

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D

The Important Aspects in

CLL

Security
non-threatening
learning
environment

The Important Aspects in

CLL

Attention and Aggression

Ability to attend to many
factors in learning so the
students dont lose the
learning.
Actively involved in the
learning experience.

The Important Aspects in

CLL

Reflection and Retention

When
Ss
reflect
on
the
language as the teacher reads
the transcript three times; when
Ss are invited to stop and
consider the active experience
they have.
The integration of the new
material that takes place within
the whole self.

The Important Aspects in

CLL

Discrimination
Sorting
out
differences
among
target
language
forms
such
as
Human
Computer.

Areas of language and language

skills that are emphasized
The

students produce what they

want to be able to say in the
target language.
Grammar points, pronunciation
patterns, and vocabulary are
worked, based on the language
the students have produce.
The most important skills are
understanding and speaking.

How does the teacher

respond to student errors?

Teachers should tell it in a nonthreatening

way.
Teacher
repeat correctly what the
student has said incorrectly.

STRENGTHS
Nonthreatening
Student

independence.
Emphasizes the
humanistic side,
and not merely its
linguistic
dimension

WEAKNESSES
Teacher

poor translator?
The teachers may not
have special training to
attempt counselling.