“No voy a poder memorizar estas palabras”, “me cuesta mucho aprender inglés”, “el inglés es imposible para mí”. Estos son algunas de las oraciones que escucho y he escuchado de mis alumnos/as adultos/as. En la mayoría de los casos, estas ideas exponen o representan creencias […]
This is another NLP principle, together with “There´s no failure, only feedback” and “Know what outcome you want to achieve”, two of my previous posts. This principle states the importance of using your senses to become aware of yourself and others´signals. Since 90 % of our […]
This is key not just in business but also in life in general and even more so in language learning. Students do not always know what outcome they set themselves to achieve and that may influence their language learning process negatively. The Cheshire cat in […]
Casi todos o la mayoría de mis estudiantes adultos que han experimentado algún nivel de dificultad en sus procesos de aprendizaje han tenido algo en común: creencias limitantes acerca de sus propias habilidades como aprendices de idiomas. Suelo darme cuenta de esto a través de […]
There’s no failure, only feedback As I’ve already mentioned in another post, our fear of making mistakes becomes an important obstacle in adult language learning. One NLP presupposition helps us to change our view of mistakes completely, it says: “there is no failure, only feedback” . Mistakes are not there to […]
This is one NLP presupposition which can be applied to different aspects of our lives, and has implications both for language learning and communication. This presupposition makes reference to our “map” of reality, i.e. we see the world through our very own lenses or filters […]
Researchers have shown that 90 % of our communication is nonverbal. We communicate when we remain silent, when we smile, when we cry, when we open our eyes, nod, turn our heads, etc. We cannot not communicate. Thus, the key importance that our sensory acuity […]