This blog is dedicate to informe about the Community Language Learning Method (CLL)
You might ask yourself what is the CLL? Well is a method use by teachers in the classroom, where they take into consideration the students feelings and fears.
By doing this it would help to make students less uncomfortable when they are learning a new language.
Enjoy!
Learning a new
language
There is no doubt
that learning a new language has its difficulties, especially when students are
not feeling comfortable with the class, the professor, their classmates and
even himself. The main purpose of the Community Language Learning method it is
to consider students as a whole person, taking into consideration not only
students’ intellect but at the same time its feelings and desire to learn.
Once in a while
students tend to feel threatened by the teacher which makes it difficult once
they are trying to teach the class. CLL considers the teacher not as a
facilitator of knowledge, but as a counselors which it means that is someone
who is capable of understand the students’ fears and makes them able to
communicate during the class putting a side those negative feelings and help
them to be capable of interact.
One of the main
characteristics of the Community Language Learning method it is not only
consider students as whole person and make them feel comfortable during the
class, CLL contemplates students most common fears which is speaking out loud
and interact with the classmates and teacher, however teacher cannot expected
students to talk in the target language in their first class. That’s why CLL is
known for the use of the students’ native language to break the barriers
between the known and unknown. After
been more adapt to the class, teacher or counselors will try to make students familiarized
with the target language, making the students to create a simple sentence like “How
are you?” afterwards the teacher will translated from the native language to
the target language, as we know students do not a single word of the target
language, that why the teacher will translate each word in chuncks, making the
student able to process and understand the new information.
Finally after each
activity the teacher will ask their students how they feel about it, and how
can it be an improvement to make them feel less uncomfortable and overcome
their fears.
University
of Costa Rica
Atlantic
Branch, Turrialba Campus
LESSON
PLAN
Institution
Date
Group:
7-1
Target Content: IDENTIFICATION OF ONESELF TO OTHERS
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Linguistic
Objectives
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Mediation
Activities
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Evaluation of learning outcomes and strategies
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Time allowed
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SWBT
To produce
short pieces of writing
To
use appropriate forms for personal address
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1.Teacher
greets students and tells the topic and activities of the class. (3 min)
2.Teacher
gives students a sheet of paper and tells them to write their most important
information such as: name, address, where they live, etc. Then he students
will provide theirs answers. (12min)
3.Teacher
provides students a sheet of paper with the appropriate forms to introduce oneself
and gives and explanation of it. (10min)
4.Teacher
asks students to make groups of 3 people, then students have to create a
dialogue with the appropriate form when they are introducing theirselves.
After they will go to the front of the class and read it. (16min)
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Teacher
explains the activities to a better understanding of the class
Teacher
tolerates students errors, and help to correct them
Student
would be able to express their answers.
Students
would be able to interact with each other’s, while they are working.
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40
minutes
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Resources: sheets of
paper, pencils
Chronicle:
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