Community Language Teaching

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Blackouts, Panic Attacks, Stress, Exam fear and test anxiety. Those are just a view of the symptoms many students who are beginners have and cause them not to enjoy learning English. Nonetheless this affection of anxiety can no longer be ignored while teachers have multiple choices to teach their students a new language. The educator’s preferred method has a very big impact on their student’s language achievement. The best method of English language teaching to solve this problem would be the Community language learning (CLL). This social-process view of language “draws on the counseling metaphor to redefine the roles of the teacher (the counselor) and learners (the clients) in the language classroom” (Richards and Rodgers, 2001) and balances …show more content…

The success of the method relies largely on the translation expert knowledge of the counselor. Therefore the teacher must be eloquent in the target language and in the students' mother language. Even though CLL focusses on fluency rather than accuracy, the student has the counselor’s aid if he mispronounces or is confused about a word or a phrase, which precludes a wrong understanding of the grammatical system of English. The student centered nature of the method provides motivation and security. According to La Forge, CLL learners “are encouraged to attend to the ”overhears” they experience between other learners and their knowers. (1983)” This works especially well with lower level students who are struggling in spoken …show more content…

The teacher needs to distance himself from the whole process because he must resist the pressure "to teach" in the traditional senses and push them to do it themselves. That is the process of becoming an independent student. As one CLL teacher notes, "I had to relax completely and to exclude my own will to produce something myself. I had to exclude any function of forming or formulating some¬thing within me, not trying to do something"(Curran 1976: 33)
Furthermore Community language learning helps students how to learn from another. In the last stage, students analyze the language they have used. This involves looking at the form of tenses and vocabulary used and why certain ones were chosen, but it will depend on the language produced by the students. They can analyze the records in group work, which supports the idea of a harmonic team spirit in

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