# Community language learning

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Language-teaching approach

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**Community language learning** (**CLL**) is a [language-teaching approach](/source/Language-teaching_approach)[1] focused on group-interest learning.

It is based on the *counselling-approach* in which the teacher acts as a counselor and a [paraphraser](/source/Paraphrase), while the learner is seen as a client and collaborator.

## Background

The CLL approach was developed by [Charles Arthur Curran](/source/Charles_Arthur_Curran), a Jesuit priest,[2] professor of [psychology](/source/Psychology) at [Loyola University Chicago](/source/Loyola_University_Chicago), and [counseling](/source/Counseling) specialist.[3]

According to Curran, a counselor helps a client understand his or her own problems better by "capturing the essence of the clients concern ...[and] relating [the client's] affect to cognition..."; in effect, understanding the client and responding in a detached yet considerate manner.[4][5]

## Methods

### Online communities

These types of communities have recently arisen with the explosion of educational resources for language learning on the Web.

## Barriers

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## See also

- [Language education](/source/Language_education)

- [Language MOOC](/source/Language_MOOC)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** American Journal of Psychotherapy (1955). COTF BIO. p. 123.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Richards, Jack C.](/source/Richards%2C_Jack_C.) (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Richards, Jack C (1986:138)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Aros, Marina. ["risolvi analisi logica"](https://analisilogicafrase.it/). Retrieved 14 February 2025.

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