- Counseling-Learning (CLL) is a language teaching method developed by Charles Curran that applies psychological counseling techniques to learning. The teacher acts as a counselor and students are clients. - In CLL, interaction begins with dependent learning as students say what they want in their native language and teachers show them how to say it in the target language. CLL combines innovative and conventional activities like translation, group work, recording, transcription, analysis and reflection. - Student roles in CLL include becoming part of a learning community. The teacher's role is to respond supportively and help students without judgment. CLL is beneficial for low-level learners but teachers may feel awkward giving students autonomy and

1. General Didactics
Natalia Blanco

2.  CLL is the method developed by Charles A.
Curran and his associates.
 Curran was an specialist in counseling. His
applications for psychological counseling
techniques to learning is known as
Counseling-Learning.

3. Counseling
 Is a person who gives advices, assistance, and support
to another who’s in need.
 The teacher becomes the counselor and the students
are the clients, in the language classroom.

4.  Interaction between knowers and learners is initially
dependent. The learner tells the knower what they
want to say in the native language and the knowers tell
them how to say it.

5. CLL combines innovative and
conventional activities.
 Translation
 Group work
 Recording
 Transcription
 Analysis
 Reflection and observation
 Listening
 Free conversation

6. Roles
 Learner roles in CLL: they become part of a
community, their fellow members and the teacher, and
learn through interacting with the community
 The teacher’s role is to respond calmly and without
judging, in a supportive manner and help the student

7. CONS
PROS
 Works really well with  At the beginning some
low levels who are
learners feel difficult to
struggling to produce
speak on a tape
spoken English
 Learners
like
autonomy that
gives
them
analyzing their
conversations
the
CLL
by
own
 Teachers feel awkward
to give the students so
much freedom and
tend to intervene very
often

9.  This method was developed by Georgi Lozanov a
psychiatrist-educator

10.  Some of the characteristics of this method are the
decoration, furniture, arrangement of the
classroom, the authoritative behavior of the teacher
and, especially the use of music.

11.  Lozanov acknowledges are related with :
 Raja yoga and
 Soviet psychology

12. Music as therapy
 Facilitate the establishment of personal relations
 Increase self-esteem through increased self-
satisfaction in musical performance
 Use the unique potential of rhythm to energize and
bring order

13.  Infantilization, the authority is also used to suggest a
teacher-student relation like a parent-child. Learners
play games, songs and do other kind of exercises to
help the student regain self-confidence.

14. The three parts of a suggestopedia class
 An oral review section. The learned material is used in
order to start a discussion about the topic, grammar
and vocabulary
 New material is presented. It consists of looking over a
new dialogue and its native translation, and again,
discuss about grammar vocabulary or content
 The “concert section” this part is by which
suggestopedia is well known.

15. Pros
Cons
Optimal language
environment
It takes long for teachers to
prepare properly the
classroom
Students are more willingly
to speak as teachers will not
try to correct errors
As teacher does not correct
students' errors, speech will
be inaccurate