Community Language Learning – a reappraisal

Community Language Learning is a method developed by Charles Curran during the 1950s at Loyola University. As part of the Confluent Education movement it enjoyed a brief period of vogue until supplanted by the Communicative Approach with its more sophisticated views of language and the language acq...

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Main Author: Carlos Sosa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 2019-07-01
Series:Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
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Online Access:https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/138
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spelling doaj-5316975369c44ad38b68d5db7e54683e2020-11-25T02:42:45ZengThe Irish Association for Applied LinguisticsTeanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics 0332-205X2565-63252019-07-0123Community Language Learning – a reappraisalCarlos Sosa0Waterford Institute of Technology Community Language Learning is a method developed by Charles Curran during the 1950s at Loyola University. As part of the Confluent Education movement it enjoyed a brief period of vogue until supplanted by the Communicative Approach with its more sophisticated views of language and the language acquisition process. This paper seeks to reappraise the main procedure of Community Language Learning as a learner-centred ‘task’ within a current, task-based approach, drawing on present-day definitions and views of second language acquisition. Based on empirical research using the task, learner attitudes are also explored. https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/138Community Language LearningLearner Attitudes
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author Carlos Sosa
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Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
Community Language Learning
Learner Attitudes
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title Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
title_short Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
title_full Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
title_fullStr Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
title_full_unstemmed Community Language Learning – a reappraisal
title_sort community language learning – a reappraisal
publisher The Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
series Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics
issn 0332-205X
2565-6325
publishDate 2019-07-01
description Community Language Learning is a method developed by Charles Curran during the 1950s at Loyola University. As part of the Confluent Education movement it enjoyed a brief period of vogue until supplanted by the Communicative Approach with its more sophisticated views of language and the language acquisition process. This paper seeks to reappraise the main procedure of Community Language Learning as a learner-centred ‘task’ within a current, task-based approach, drawing on present-day definitions and views of second language acquisition. Based on empirical research using the task, learner attitudes are also explored.
topic Community Language Learning
Learner Attitudes
url https://journal.iraal.ie/index.php/teanga/article/view/138
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