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'''Community language learning''' ('''CLL''') is a language-teaching approach<ref>Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching</ref> focused on group-interest learning.
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.
==Background== The CLL approach was developed by Charles Arthur Curran, a Jesuit priest,<ref>American Journal of Psychotherapy (1955). COTF BIO. p. 123.</ref> professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and counseling specialist.<ref>Richards, Jack C. (1986:113) Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching</ref>
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.<ref>Richards, Jack C (1986:138)</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Aros |first1=Marina |title=risolvi analisi logica |url=https://analisilogicafrase.it/ |access-date=14 February 2025}}</ref>
==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 *Language MOOC
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