ENGLISH DIDACTICS: Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)

Background of NLP

Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an interpersonal communications model and an alternative approach that was co-founded by Richard Bandler and linguist John Grinder in the 1970s as a method of personal change and communications.

What

NLP is

Neuro-linguistic programming is an interpersonal communications model and an alternative approach to psychotherapy based on the subjective study of language, communication and personal change.Its aim is to increase choice in the underlying representations so that the individual has more choice and flexibility in the world. "NLP may be best thought of as a system of psychology concerned with the self development of the human being". Partridge (2003)It is not concerned whether a belief is true or not, but whether it is empowering or disempowering.

Functions

NLP claims to help people change by teaching them to program their brains.NLP was specifically created in order to allow us to do magic by creating new ways of understanding how verbal and non-verbal communication affect the human brain. NLP is also used for individual psychotherapy for problems as diverse as phobias and schizophrenia.NLP is collection of information or techniques that can enable you to improve how you think, behave and feel.

Benefi

ts

Do whatever you already do reasonably well, even betterAcquire skills and attitudes to do what you cannot do right now, but would like to be able to doThink more clearlyCommunicate more effectively with othersManage your thoughts, moods and behaviours more effectively.

Techniques

Anchoring: Thi technique means the the process by which memory recall, state change or other responses become associated with some stimulus, in such a way that perception of the stimulus leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring.Swish: It is a process of disrupting a pattern of thought from one that leads to an unwanted behavior to one that leads to a desired behavior.Reframing: It is the process whereby an element of communication is presented so as to shift an individual's perception of the meanings or "frames" attributed to words, phrases and events.

NLP in language

learning

NLP can help a language teacher understand the modes of their students and apply teaching strategies accordingly.Also, it helps students identify the way they learn best, so they can apply it in different spaces, like at school.You can apply it to reading and writing skills in English.

Types of

learners

Some of us think best in pictures (visual).Some of us in sounds (auditory). Some of us like to process our thoughts through our bodies (kinaesthetic).

NLP in the

classroom

NLP used in Language Teaching tells us about how we, ourselves and our students, think and learn. It does this by enabling us to explore the structure of our own subjective experience: how we construct our view of the world.NLP techniques enable us to demonstrate to students their own inner learning processes. This brings them much closer to learning to manage their own rich internal software: their images, sounds and feelings. Bit-by-bit they will come to understand and even learn how to control the way they think. In short they will learn how to learn.

OPINIONS

I find this technique really interesting since it eneables people to know

how they learn and also to control it by using some specific methods.

Also it works in the classroom, so it's an iteresting approach for educators

to make our labor even more meaningful, because it provide us with important information about our own students and ourselves.