NLP and Learning. By Guido Riquelme.

How by applying Neuro-linguistic programming in educational settings could we improve the students learning notwithstanding the students outcome? As long this essay develops, it will demonstrate the application of some features of NLP to improve students attitude toward the leaning of the language and the uses of imitative methods by NLP to accomplish learning. In order to contextualize, NLP was developed during the 70s. According to Tosey and Mathison (2013) exist various fashions to define NLP, for instance, `the art of communication excellence', or `the study of the structure of subjective experience' (McWhirter 1992). One of the main aims of this approach is to improve and smooth the learning process. First of all, the teachers attitude toward the class will directly affect to the students attitude, in other words, if the teacher create a convenient environment at the moment of teaching, the effectiveness of the learning process would be higher quality. According to Churches & Terry (2007), when the teacher changes his/her state as well the students behavior. This takes effect not only with children but also with adults. The previous statement implies that the teacher influences directly to his/her students. Secondly, the implementation of NLP modeling method in the classroom in order to improve learning. At the very beginning this method was portrayed to identify how people processed information. This principle is used nowadays to create a sort of map that allows distinguishing the thinking process that a person possesses and, bearing this in mind is easier to identify a cognitive strategy that could make easier and more successful the process of learning. To sum up, NLP provides us tools that are useful at the moment of teaching. It is compulsory to bear in mind what method, strategy, or approach would not only make our job easier but also will help our students to understand the information and how this information will attach to their knowledge.

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