Community Language Learning (CLL)

Characteristics
1. Use of Counseling-Learning theory to teach languages
2. Humanistic techniques
  1. help build rapport, cohesiveness, and caring that far transcend what is already there
  2. help students to be themselves, to accept themselves, and be proud of themselves
  3. help foster a climate of caring and sharing in the foreign language class
3. language alternation
  1. a message/lesson/class is presented first in the native language and then again in the second language
4. Social Process
  1. Communication
    1. is more than just a message being transmitted from a speaker to a listener.
    2. constitution of the speaking subject in relation to its other
    3. is an exchange
  2. The speaker is at the same time both subject and object of his own message
5. Interactional view
  1. interactions between learners
    1. unpredictable in content but typically are said to involve exchanges of affect
  2. Interactions between learners and knowers
    1. initially dependent
    2. whole-person learning
6. five stages of language learning
  1. 1. birth stage
  2. 2. the learner’s abilities improve
  3. 3. the learner speaks independently
  4. 4. the learner as secure enough to take criticism
  5. 5. the learner merely works on improving style and knowledge of linguistic appropriateness.
7. A textbook is not considered a necessary component
weaknesses
1. explicit linguistic or communicative objectives are not defined
2. CLL does not use a conventional language syllabus
3. Specific grammatical points, lexical patterns, and generalizations will sometimes be isolated by the teacher
strengths
1. humanistic techniques
  1. centers on the learner and stresses the humanistic side of language learning
2. CLL learners are encouraged to attend to the “overhears” they experience between other learners and their knowers
  1. every member of the group can understand what any given learner is trying to communicate
3. techniques of counseling
  1. to learning in general (Counseling-Learning)
  2. To language teaching in particular (Community Language Learning)
4. CLL combines innovative learning tasks and activities with conventional ones
  1. 1. Translation
  2. 2. Group work
  3. 3. Recording.
  4. 4. Transcription.
  5. 5. Analysis
  6. 6. Reflection and observation
  7. 7. Listening
  8. 8. Free conversation
5. Learner roles
  1. to listen attentively to the knower
  2. to freely provide meanings they wish to express
  3. to repeat target utterances without hesitation
  4. to support fellow members of the community
  5. to report deep inner feelings and frustrations as well as joy and pleasure
  6. to become counselors of other learners
6. The teacher’s role
  1. functions of the counselor
  2. the teacher operates in a supportive role
  3. a nurturing parent
  4. somewhat dependent on the learner
abilities focus
1. learners’ tasks
  1. to apprehend the sound system
  2. assign fundamental meanings
  3. construct a basic grammar of the foreign language
2. the focus on fluency(speaking) rather than accuracy

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	Created by Orlando Acevedo almost 8 years ago