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Community language learning (CLL) is a 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, while the learner is seen as a client and collaborator.
The CLL approach was developed by Charles Arthur Curran, a Jesuit priest, [2] professor of psychology at Loyola University Chicago, and 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]
These types of communities have recently arisen with the explosion of educational resources for language learning on the Web.
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