Community language learning

Language-teaching approach

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Community language learning (CLL) is a language-teaching approach[1] 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.

## Background

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The CLL approach was developed by Charles Arthur Curran, a Jesuit priest,[2] professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and counseling specialist.[3]

According to Curran, a counselor helps a client understand his or her own problems better by 'capturing the essence of the clients concern ...[and] relating [the client's] affect to cognition...'; in effect, understanding the client and responding in a detached yet considerate manner.[4]

## Methods

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### Natural approach

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### Online communities

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These types of communities have recently arisen with the explosion of educational resources for language learning on the Web.

## Barriers

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## See also

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* Language education
* Language MOOC

## References

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1. ^ Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
2. ^ American Journal of Psychotherapy (1955). COTF BIO. p. 123.
3. ^ Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching
4. ^ Richards, Jack C (1986:138)

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Language education

Methodology|

* Audio-lingual method
* Automatic Language Growth
* Communicative language teaching
* Comprehension approach
* Community language learning
* Computer-assisted language learning
* Content-based instruction
* Direct Method
* Dogme language teaching
* Extensive reading
* Focal Skills
* Grammar–translation method
* Language immersion
* Lexical approach
* Michel Thomas Method
* Natural approach
* Silent way
* Suggestopedia
* Task-based language learning
* Total physical response
* TPR Storytelling
* Vocabulary development
* Whole language

Teaching techniques|

* Mother tongue mirroring
* Sandwich technique
* Back-chaining
* Dictogloss
* Information gap

Key concepts|

* Bilingual dictionary
* Critical period hypothesis
* English as a lingua franca
* Interlanguage
* Language transfer
* Second-language acquisition
* World Englishes

Assessment|

* Language assessment
* Washback effect
* Corrective feedback
* Competency evaluation
* DIALANG
* IELTS
* TOEFL
* TOEIC
* UCLES

Programs and organizations|

* English as a second or foreign language
* English for specific purposes
* TESOL

Key people|

* Betty Azar
* H. Douglas Brown
* Pit Corder
* Jim Cummins
* Rod Ellis
* Stephen Krashen
* Scott Thornbury

Statistics|

* List of countries where English is an official language
* List of countries by English-speaking population
* Most commonly learned foreign languages in the U.S.
* EF English Proficiency Index

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