COMMUNICATY LANGUAGE LEARNING (Charles A. Curran )

COMMUNICATY LANGUAGE LEARNING (Charles A. Curran )

1. Approach

   • Language Theory
     • starts, though not end, with criteria for sound feature, the sentence, and abstract models of language.
   • Learning Theory
     • learning is holistic, since “true” human learning in both cognitive and affective which takes place in a communicative situation where teachers and learners are involved in an interaction.

2. Drawn on

   • Counseling learning theory
     • Include a counselor,a person who gave advices, assistance, and support to another who has a problem, and a client who is the learner.
   • The humanistic techniques
     • Take into account emotions and feelings (the affective realm) as well as linguistic knowledge and behavioral skills.
   • “Language alternation”
     • A lesson is presented first in the native language and then again in the second language.

3. Syllabus

   • emerges from the interaction between the learner's expressed communicative intentions and the teacher's reformulations of these into suitable target language.

4. Roles

   • Learner
     • must solve afective crisis passing through the 5 stages of the learning process
   • Teacher
     • provides target language translations and a model for imitation on request of the client, monitor learners utterances intervening directly and advise on usage and fine points of grammar.