Teaching English as ...

A method of second and foreign language teaching developed by Charles Curran. Community Language Learning is an application of counselling learning to second and foreign language teaching and learning. It uses techniques developed in group counselling to help people with psychological and emotional problems. The method makes use of group learning in small or large groups. These groups are the “community”. The method places emphasis on the learners’ personal feelings and their reactions to language learning. Learners say things which they want to talk about, in their native language.The teacher (known as “Counselor”) translates the learner’s sentences into the foreign language, and the learner then repeats this to other members of the group.