COMMUNITY LANGUAGE TEACHING
Teachers who use this method want their students to learn how to see the target language communicatively. Building a relationship with and among students is very important.any new learning experience can be threatening. Language is for communication and students have to make some conversation. The superior knowledge and power of the teacher can be threatening. The teacher should be sensitive to student’level of confidence and give them just what they need to be successful. Students feel more secure when they know the limits of an activity.
Students are invited to talk about how they felt during the conversation. Teacher and students are whole persons. Sharing about their experience allows learners to get to know one another and to build community. The teacher accepts what each student says. The teacher ‘counsel’ the students. The students listen to the tape and give the Indonesian translation. The teacher should take the responsibility for clearly structuring activities in the most appropriate way possible for successful completion of an activity. Learning at the beginning stages to facilitated if students attend to one task at a time. The teacher encourages students initiative and independence, but does not let students flounder in uncomfortable silences.
Students need quiet reflection time in order to learn. Students learn best when they have a choice in what they practice. Students need to learn to discriminate, for example, in perceiving the similarities and differences among the target language forms. Students work together in a group/ the teacher corrects by repeating correctly the sentence the students have created. Developing a community among the class members builds trust and can help to reduce the threat of the new learning situation.learning tends not to take place when the material is too new or conversely,too familiar. The students reflect on what they have experienced. In the beginning stages, the syllabus is generated primarily by the students. Students are more willing to learn when they have created the material themselves.