Educating Using CLL

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In this post, I will talk about using CLL in my classes. For me, it has been very helpful to use this kind of method when teaching English. Some students do not want to participate in some activities, that is why it is recomendable to use the CLL method.

First, we, as  teachers, introduce ourselves and greet the students, second, we explain the methodology and the kind of activity we will do, later we make one or two teams of students in a circle, and finally, we start the classs making shure that all students have understood the instructions.

We will start the class by playing a CD recorder about a simple conversation in the target language, and tell your students that they do not need to write nothing, just pay attention to the conversation, after listening to the conversation, we will ask our students if they wish to listen it again, we will play the recording as many times as they want. After this, you tell your students to create a conversation based on the recording, then they have to conjugate verbs, and create new sentences.

The teacher will act as a counselor, will lead the students, and will clear all their doubts and all their mispronunciations. The students will act as collaboratos, being responsables at all times, the need to have the feelin that they are in control of the target language.

When the students are doing the activities, they can talk with the other members of the team, or they can ask the teacher how to pronounce a certain word, or to clear any doubt.

Finally, the teacher, will ask the students how they feel doing this kind of activities, and what have they learned.

This kind of methodology is great to teach begginers, and/or students that are shy, that is why I recomend it, just give it a try,and you will love it forever.