Neuro linguistic programming
- 1. NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING: A NEW AGE ELIXIR FOR A HUMANISTIC APPROACH IN LANGUAGE TEACHING Geetha Janet Vitus Lecturer in Education Karmala Rani Training College, Kollam
- 2. The Reform Movement in Language teaching • The International Phonetic Association was founded in 1886, and its International Phonetic Alphabet(IPA) was designed to enable the sound of any language to be accurately transcribed. The history of language teaching throughout much of the twentieth century saw the rise and fall of a variety of language teaching approaches and methods.
- 3. Common Assumptions - An approach or method refers to a theoretically consistent set of teaching procedures that define best practice in language teaching . Particular approaches and methods, if followed precisely will lead to more effective levels of language learning than alternative ways of teaching The quality of language teaching will improve if teachers use the best available approaches and methods.
- 4. Approaches and Methods Approaches and methods can be studied not as a prescription for how to teach but as a source of well used practice which teachers can adopt or implement based on their own needs. Experience in using different teaching approaches and methods can provide teachers with basic teaching skill that they can later add to or supplement as they develop teaching experience.
- 5. Different views of Language •Structural view •Functional view •International view
- 6. Recent Approaches and Methods • Neuro Linguistic Programming. • Multiple Intelligence.
- 7. Neuro Linguistic Programming • Neuro Linguistics Programming is a set of general communication techniques, NLP practioners generally are required to take training in how to use the techniques in their respective fields. • The assumptions of NLP refer to attitude to life, the people and to self discovery and awareness, it has had some appeal within language teaching.
- 8. Design of NLP • Outcomes: the goals or ends. NLP claims that knowing precisely what you want helps you achieve. • Rapport: A factor that is essential for effective communication. • Sensory Acuity : noticing what another person is communicating, consciously , non verbally. • Flexibility: Keep changing what you do until you get what you want.
- 9. Presuppositions of NLP • NLP is a model of generation: It generates new behaviour and not repairs old one – If what you are doing is not working do something else. • A map is not the territory it depicts; words are not the things they describe; symbols are not the things they represent and the menu is not the meal. The world we use are not the event or item they represent
- 10. Presuppositions of NLP 2 • Our internal experience is our map of the world and is reflected by our external behaviour. Every communication a person makes has validity in his or her map of the world. • Respect the other person’s map of the world: Accept that we are all different with different maps of reality (experiences) This make rapport and thereby making change possible. We all travel through the same territory but with different maps 10
- 11. Presuppositions of NLP 3 • There are no failures but feed backs : Failure is an unprecedented opportunity to learn, no matter what happens. If you look at your mistakes in relation to your goal (outcome) and other successors, then they are feedback. Then if you see them as failures then it is a dead end. • The part of the system with the more flexibility controls the system .Flexibility means having more choice in the communication interaction. The entire point of being flexible in behaviour is that you can change your behaviour till you get the response you want.
- 12. Presuppositions of NLP 4 • Behaviour is geared to adaptation and present behaviour is the best choice available at that time. Underlying every behaviour is a positive intention. • Behaviour and change should be evaluated in terms of context and ecology. There may be times and places when they may not be appropriate. • People have an infinite amount of resources .They might need help to access the resource at the appropriate time and place. If it is possible for one then it is possible for anyone; it is just a matter of time.
- 13. Modelling • Modelling is central to NLP- teachers are expected to model their teaching on expert teachers they most admire. Similarly learners are expected to find successful models for the person they themselves are striving to become. If you want to be become an excellent teacher, model excellent teachers
- 14. Procedure • NLP principles can be applied to the teaching of all aspects of language, according to Revell and Norman
- 15. Teaching Present Perfect • -to help the students become aware at a feeling level of the conceptual meaning of a grammatical structure • Give a guided fantasy of eating a food item and then reflecting on the experience. • Students are told that they are going on an “inner grammatical experience” as they eat a biscuit. They are asked to relax, close their eyes and “go inside” Once “inside”, they listen to the teacher, produced fantasy
- 16. Conclusion • NLP is not a language teaching method . Rather it is a humanistic philosophy and a set of beliefs and suggestions based on popular psychology, designed to convince people that they have the power to control their own and other people’s lives for the better and practical prescriptions on how to do so .
- 17. Conclusion-2 • As revel and Norman comment, the assumptions on which NLP are based, need not be accepted as the absolute truth, but acting as if they were true can make a world of difference in your life and teaching. • NLP offers a different interpretation of the role of the teacher and the learner, one in harmony with many learner-centered, person-centered views.
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