Space does not permit me to describe in detail the psychological system on which CLL is based, but essentially, the learner is supposed to move from a stage of total dependence on the Knower at the beginning to a stage of independent autonomy at the end, passing through 5 developmental stages along the way. It is the Knower's job to provide the supportive and secure environment for leamers, and to encourage a whole-person approach to the learning. There are clearly some major problems with CLL. It can only be done with small numbers of students. The students have to share a single mother tongue. The teacher (Knower) has to be highly proficient in the target language and in the language of the students. The teacher also has to have enormous reserves ofenergy both physical and psychic. have used CLL to teach French and Italian in the beginner stages, and I can assure you I was like a wrung-out rag after each session!) Arguably, too, it is unwise to undertake CLL as a teacher without some counseling training. It has also been pointed out that this is a methodology exclusively suitable for adult leamers, not for children. That most descriptions ofit in action also focus on the early stages of learning the new language. What do teachers do after that? As for many methods, it gets more difficult to distinguish between one method and another more advanced the learner becomes. Perhaps the enduring value ofCLL has been its emphasis on whole-person learning; the role of a supportive, non-judgmental teacher, the passing of responsibility for learning to the leamers (where it belongs); and the abolition of a pre-planned syllabus.