This method was developed around 1970 in USA, in this the teachers make the roll of advice for the students while they cheer up to work together, helping and learning between them, this method has the main objective to alleviate the anxiety and threat so often by language learning is something described as ¨counselling learning¨. With this the students make easier the getting of the new language, they learn to work together in team, and the teachers help them to do it better, so the CLL is very important to learn the new language.
The CLL emphasizes the sense of community in the learning group, encourages interaction as a vehicle for learning, and considers as a priority the students’ feelings and the recognition of struggles in language acquisition, there is no syllabus or textbook to follow, and it is the students themselves who determine the content of the lesson by means of meaningful conversations in which they discuss real messages. Notably, it incorporates translation, transcription, and recording techniques.
Some features of a CLL lesson.
- target language/mother tongue
- counselling role for teacher; client roles for learners
- recorder inside circle and teacher outside
- recorded dialogue transcribed by teacher on board
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