Open AccessCommunity Language Learning – a reappraisal
Author(s) -
Carlos Andrés López Sosa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teanga - irish association for applied linguistics/teanga the journal of the irish association for applied linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2565-6325
pISSN - 0332-205X
DOI - 10.35903/teanga.v23i0.138
Subject(s) - curran , task (project management) , language acquisition , computer science , comprehension approach , language education , process (computing) , second language acquisition , linguistics , psychology , pedagogy , mathematics education , programming language , philosophy , botany , management , economics , biology
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.