Tag: neuroscience

• Language Learning Tricks: Part 3

  Let me share one more little trick with you that helped me a lot when I was struggling with a language… Visualise yourself speaking the language fluently. Close your eyes and imagine that you are in a real conversation with someone in the target language. Make it feel and seem as real as possible: imagine…

  Andrea

  1st Jan 2025

  language learning

  esl, language, language learning, methodology, methods, neuroscience, psychology, visualisation

• Language Learning Tricks: Part 2

  Picture credit: https://www.medlink.com/handouts/brain-anatomy Let’s see what works and why. What does neuroscience (the study of the brain) tell us? 1. Spaced Repetition 2. Learning in Context 3. Speaking Out Loud 4. Chunking Information Chunking in linguistic contexts means to group things together into a smaller unit. We do that with words that go together so…

  Andrea

  30th Dec 2024

  language learning

  brain, coaching, esl, language, language learning, learning, methodology, methods, neuroscience, psychology

• Language Learning Tricks: Part 1

  There are numerous different ways in which people learn languages: I’m sure there are many other ways, but these are probably the best-known ones. Now, whichever way you choose (or it chooses you), there is one thing that will make the learning process faster: immersion. Immersion means that you surround yourself with the language you…

  Andrea

  10th Nov 2024

  language learning

  education, english, esl, immersion, language, language learning, methodology, methods, neuroscience, strategy, tricks