What is accelerated learning?

• Win Winger: Lazanov’s method does not use

visuals or visualization.
• Articulate: See and draw out all details you
learn. Articulation not only draws forth existing
information, but if you articulate information
that is new to you (i.e. describe it in detail out
loud) that very act of description sharpens your
perception of the subject. It also facilitates and
deepens your memory of it.
• Visualisation involves the subconscious. If you
read something new and then close your eyes
and describe it out loud, you by definition are
synchronising the activity of your left and right
brain - because visualisation is a right brain
function and speech is a left brain function.
Articulation, therefore, which involves whole
brain activity, is a vital element in fast learning.
• `Whenever you close your eyes, visualise the
subject and articulate that image out loud, you
have achieved a left/right brain symbiosis and
a fast route into memorisation.
• For example, it has been discovered that good
spellers invariably bring to mind an image of
the word (V), and can `feel' (K) if it is right. Bad
spellers don't use this sequence. They try to
check the word phonetically and with English
that is a poor predictor of correct spelling!
• Consequently it is much more productive to
teach a bad speller the sequence of V + K,
than it is to ask him or her laboriously to
memorise the specific spelling of thousands of
words.
• It is important to repeat that no-one is a pure visual or pure
auditory or pure kinaesthetic learner. However, we react
best to our dominant system. So it pays to train yourself to
develop your other senses, in order to maximise the
beneficial effect of all the signals reaching you.
• The use of Baroque music has a similar function - the
relaxing tempo of the music produces a matching physical
and mental response in the listener and leads them into a
state of relaxed receptivity.
• Bandler and Grinder - following the work of the brilliant
psychotherapists Milton Erickson and Virginia Satir – have
evolved a useful technique you can easily use yourself.
• It is deceptively simple, and indeed most people's initial
reaction is that it is too simplistic to work - but it does.
• An excellent book "Master Teaching" written by Bernard F. Cleveland.
• we can each develop a learning sequence that is ideal for us personally. The following
sequence incorporates what we have discovered to date and formalises it into a
learning sequence. For each new subject you would -
• Read the text and visualise the contents Hear the words internally in your `mind's ear'.
• Feel the text, or act out the key elements or in some way physically involve yourself.
• Using the new expressions we have learned, the sequences might be:
• V - read material
• Vr - recall it visually - image it
• A - hear a verbal presentation
• Ar - hear the material in your head, rehearse it
• Vc - construct a new image of the subject in your head, visualise it vividly.
• K - Act out the subject or underline key words
• V+K - Write out key words in your favourite colour. Draw a picture or map. Write some
of the words backwards. Walk around while you read or listen.
• Ad- Present the argument to an imaginary audience.
• Involve your senses and you will involve your subconscious. Involve your
subconscious, and you have the most powerful part of your brain helping in the
learning process.
(a) - Immediate rehearsal within the short term
memory span.
(b) - A test after a few minutes.
(c) - A review after the first hour.
(d) - A short review after an overnight rest,
because sleep appears to reinforce memory.
(e) - A short review after a week.
(f) - A short review after a month.
• Thank you