Community language learning is a language-teaching method developed by psychologist Charles Curran in the 1970s, adapting techniques from group counseling: learners sit in a circle and choose what to say, a teacher standing outside the circle translates each utterance into the target language for the learner to repeat, and sessions are recorded and later transcribed and analyzed by the group, treating a learner's own anxiety about language learning as a central factor the method is designed to manage.
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Central QuestionHow can learners learn a language in a group with the teacher acting as a counselor? 1 Connections
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1. Wikipedia: Community language learning
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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.
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