Community language learning (CLL) is a language-teaching approach focused on group-interest learning. It is based on the counselling-approach in which the teacher acts as a counselor and a paraphraser, while the learner is seen as a client and collaborator.

1. COMMUNITY LANGUAGE
LEARNING (CLL)
Fernando Polanco
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2. CHARLES A. CURRAN
• Curran was a
specialist in
counseling and a
professor of
psycologist at
Loyola University

3. WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
• It is an approach in which students work together to develop what
aspects of a language they would like to learn. The teacher acts as a
counselor while the learner acts as a collaborator (client).
• Students will have a conversation in English with teacher’s help and
the conversation will be tape-recorded. Then, they will create a
written form of the conversation “a transcript”.

4. GOALS
• 1. To learn language communicatively.
• 2. To take responsibility for learning.
• 3. To approach the task non-defensively, never separating intellect
from feelings.

5. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER?
• The teacher’s initial role is primarily that of a counselor. This means
that the teacher recognize show threatening a new learning
situation, can be for adult learners, so he skillfully understands and
supports his students in their struggle to master the target
language.

6. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE STUDENTS?
• Initially the learners are very dependent upon the teacher. As the
learners continue to study, they become increasingly independent.

7. ADVANTAGES
• 1. The counselor allow the learners to determine type of
conversation and to analyze the language inductively.
• 2. The student centered nature of the method can provide extrinsic
motivation and capitalized an intrinsic motivation.

8. DISADVANTAGES
• 1. The counselor- teacher can become too nondirective. Students
often need direction.
• 2. Translation is an intricate and difficult task. The success of the
method relies largely on the translation expertise of the counselor.