The Community Language Learning Method

This language teaching method advices the teacher to consider they students as “a whole person” whereas teacher consider not only their students’ intelect, but also have some understanding of the relationship among students’ feeling, physical reaction, instinctive protective reaction, and desire to learn. The community language learning takes its principles from the more general counseling approach developed by Charles A. Curran. He was also influenced by Carl Roger’s humanistic psycology. Curran believed that a way to deal with the fears of the students is for teachers to become “ language counselors’.it means that the teacher recognizes how threatening a new learning situation can be for adult learners, so he skillfully understands and supports in their struggle to master the target language.

The teachers’ goal is the students learn how to use target language communicatively. In addition, they want their student to learn about their own learning, to take increasing responsibility of it, and learn how to learn from another. All of these objectives can be accomplished in a nondefensive manner if a teacher and learners treat each other as whole person, valuing both thought and feelings.

The nature of student-teacher interaction in community language learning methog changes within the lesson and over time. Sometimesthe students are assertive as when they are having a conversation.

The techniques :

1. Tape recording students’ conversation

2. Transcription

3. Reflection on experience in class

4. Reflective listening

5. Human computere™

6. Small group task

The two most basic princeples which underline the kind of learning that can take plece in comunity language learning method are summed up in the ollowing phrases :

· ‘Learning is persons,’ which means that whole person learning of anothe language takes place best in relationship of trust, suppoer, and cooperative between teacher, students, and among students.

· ‘Learning is dynamic and creative,’ which means that learning is a living and developmental process.