Communicative language teaching
Community language learning (CLL) 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 counsellor and a paraphraser, while the learner acts as a collaborator, although sometimes this role can be changed.
The CLL method was developed by Charles A. Curran, a professor of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.[1] This method refers to two roles: that of the know-er (teacher) and student (learner). Also the method draws on the counseling metaphor and refers to these respective roles as a counselor and a client. 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.
To restate, the counselor blends what the client feels and what he is learning in order to make the experience a meaningful one. Often, this supportive role requires greater energy expenditure than an 'average' teacher.[2]
The Difference Between : Approach, Method, Technique
Sometimes we are confused, the terms "approach", "method" and "technique" in language teaching. Here I try to make some short understanding about them.
APPROACH ==> ASSUMPTION :An approach is a set of correlative assumptions about the nature of language and language learning
METHOD ==> PLAN :A method is a plan for presenting the language material to be learned and should be based upon a selected approach.
Approach and Method are two words that are often confused due to the appearing similarity in their meanings. Strictly speaking there is some difference between the two words.
Approach refers to an act or means of coming near or approaching as in the expression ‘made an approach’. In the expression ‘needs a new approach’, the word ‘approach’ has the sense of ‘a way of dealing with a person or a thing’.
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The CLL method was developed by Charles A. Curran, a professor of psychology at Loyola University in Chicago.[1] This method refers to two roles: that of the know-er (teacher) and student (learner). Also the method draws on the counseling metaphor and refers to these respective roles as a counselor and a client. 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.
To restate, the counselor blends what the client feels and what he is learning in order to make the experience a meaningful one. Often, this supportive role requires greater energy expenditure than an 'average' teacher.[2]
The Difference Between : Approach, Method, Technique
Sometimes we are confused, the terms "approach", "method" and "technique" in language teaching. Here I try to make some short understanding about them.
APPROACH ==> ASSUMPTION :An approach is a set of correlative assumptions about the nature of language and language learning
METHOD ==> PLAN :A method is a plan for presenting the language material to be learned and should be based upon a selected approach.
Approach and Method are two words that are often confused due to the appearing similarity in their meanings. Strictly speaking there is some difference between the two words.
Approach refers to an act or means of coming near or approaching as in the expression ‘made an approach’. In the expression ‘needs a new approach’, the word ‘approach’ has the sense of ‘a way of dealing with a person or a thing’.
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