Community Language Learning- Approach in ESL

2.  Community
Language Learning
(CLL) is a method
developed by
Charles A. Curran
 Specialist in
counseling and a
professor of
psychology at
Loyola University,
Chicago.
 Developed
Counseling-
Learning
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Charles Curran (1930)
Roman Catholic Priest

3.  La Forge refers CLL as Language as Social
Process
 He said that:
1. Language is people: Language is persons in contact;
Language is persons in response.
2. Interaction: interaction between learners,
interactions between learners and knowers
o CLL focuses more on cooperation and
reflection
o Learners learn best when they have a choice
in what they are learning.
o Learners also learn in a positive community
environment
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4. S – Security
A – Attention and Aggression
R – Retention and Reflection
D – Denotes discrimination
(Curran 1976)
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5. 1. Translation
 Learners form a small circle. A learner whispers a
message or meaning he or she wants to
express, the teacher translates it into the target
language, and the learners repeat the
teacher’s translation.
2. Group work
 Learners may engage in various group tasks,
such as small group discussion or a topic.
3. Recording
 Students record conversations in the target
language.
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6. 4. Transcription
 Students transcribe utterances and
conversations they have recorded for practice
and analysis of linguistic form.
5. Analysis
 Students analyze and study transcriptions of
target language sentences.
6. Reflection and observation
 Learners reflect and report on their experience
of the class, as a class or in groups.
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7. 7. Listening
Students listen to a monologue by the
teacher involving elements they might
have elicited or overheard in class
interactions.
8. Free Conversation
Students engage in free conversation
with the teacher or with the learners
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8.  Members of the community
 Learn through interacting with the
community
 Accomplished things collaboratively
 Expected to listen attentively to the knower
 Provide meanings they wish to express
 Repeat target utterances without hesitation
 Support follow members of the community
 Report deep inner feelings
 Become counselors of others
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9.  Counselors
 Responds calmly and nonjudgmentally to
client
 Helps the client try to understand his or her
problems better
 Relate affect (understanding the feeling of the
client)
 Provides target-language translations
 Model for imitation
 Monitors learners
 Corrects utterances of the learners
 Provide nonthreatening environment
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10.  Textbook is not considered as necessary
component
 Materials may be developed by the
teacher
 Conversations may be transcribed and
distributed for study analysis
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11.  Rodgers, J. C. (2001). Audio Lingual
Method. In J. C. Rodgers, Approaches and
Methods in Language Teaching (pp. 50-67).
New York: Cambridge University Press.
 Voronova, A. (2012, March 26). Linguistics
898. Retrieved from Linguistics Website:
linguistics.usask.ca/Ling898/al_slides.pptx