Community Language Learning Theory

Introduction:

Community language learning developed by charles.A.Curran. Curran is a specialist in counseling and he is proffessor of psychology at Loyola university,Chicago.Curran studied adult learning for many years .He was also influenced by Carl Rogers humanistic psychology ,he found that adult feel anxious when learning new thing.Curran says that one way to overcome on their fear is that teachers become language counselor.There is counseling learning theory in community language learning.counselor is a person who gives advice,support another person who has a problem. In communiy language learning the teacher is a counselor and the learner is a client in classroom,so there is a client _counselor relationship.In this method

3 . Seperate Existence : Learners speak independently in this stage.

4. Adolescence : The learners are independent but they aware of gaps in their knowledge and feel secure , they take criticism .

5 . Independence : They are completly independent .

At the end of final stage the learners learn everything from the teacher and become a knower to another learner.

Community language learning method based on counseling technique that reduce anxiety that learners may encounter. In counseling _ learning learners are in a group . They have relationship with each other . The teacher and students work together to improve learning . In CLL method relationship is very important , it base on communication . At first students have a conversation in their native language , the teacher support them to solve their problem and communicate better in the target language . Teachers pay attention to student' s feeling and understand them . In this method teacher not only support but also give the students security to become active in class participation. At the first session of class all the learners facing each other, first there is a silence in a class , but they gradually start to talk with the help of teacher . At first there is an informal greeting between them , the teacher gives

He support the leraners to master the target language. At the begining learner's dependent on the teacher and then gradually they become independent from the counselor . In the first stage of development teacher is supporter , he translate the target language to them, the teachers and students have interaction with each other. The teacher as a skillful person support the students and want them to master the target language