NLP & LANGUAGE LEARNING

MARCELA GATICA

TEACHER: PAULA MORALES

CONCEPCIÓN, NOVEMBER 2013

Trough the time many linguists and teachers have tried to help with the educational

process, there has appeared many researches on language learning and professional

development, who propose many ideas and tools for promoting a good teaching in the

classroom and engage students’ mind.

But not only teachers have proposes ideas and models, NLP (1970) is a neuro-linguistic

programme developed at the University of California, and this model has become

popular, why? Because it links the internal knowledge of a person with his/her

expression of this knowledge, in other words, a person has connections with body and

mind. The NLP involves human experience: neurology, language and programming1 .

NLP works with the mind of human beings and its process of how internalize

information and the ways that help humans to learn by knowing a little bit more their

brains.

The neurologic part is referred to our mind and RAS, the reticular activating system,

and a good input provided by teachers would provoke a learning reaction on students, it

is necessary a good input and engage students, maintain them activated. As here senses

are connected, it is suitable that teachers can know how to deliver information properly

and students can be motivated by watching, listening, touching, and sometimes smelling

at the moment of learning, so a good input will be always good for learners, we must

not forget that in some schools students do not have input, they do not do listening

activities and sometimes teachers do not show them videos, dialogues or routines. So,

we must be aware and conscious that the most important are learners and their needs.

Moreover, NLP help human beings to know more about themselves, if a person develop

a good level of NLP could be more successful and could be in a balanced spiritual, such

thing will help the person to get closer to his/her family and himself.

Robert B. Dilts (1991) has established and published many frameworks and important

research on NLP, he has applied NLP in education, health and creativity. According to

Robert B. Dilts (1991) NLP is basically based on two fundamental presuppositions,

which are: 1. The map is not the territory, here he points out that we can know our

perceptions of reality trough oour sensory system, “it is generally not reality that limits

us or empowers us, but rather our map of reality2. And the another presupposition is, 2: 1 Extracted from http://www.nlpu.com/NewDesign/NLPU_WhatIsNLP.htmlWhat is NLP. NLP University, Robert B, Dilts2 Extracted from Robert B. Dilts ,“What is NLP “http://www.nlpu.com/NewDesign/NLPU_WhatIsNLP.html

“Life” and “Mind” are systemic processes, this means that the processes between

human beings are environment are systemic, our bodies and our society form a complex

system and sub system which interact and influence on each other, so life and mind will

be always related and influencing one another by the environment.

To conclude NLP is a tool not only for teachers, it is also for every human being in the

world, but can be applied in the classroom by teachers with the purpose of engage and

maintain students activated and conscious that they are learning, as Robert B. Dilts

mentions (1991) , NLP is a way of enriching the choices that you have and perceive as

available in the world around you. Excellence comes from having many choices.

Wisdom comes from multiple perspectives.3

3 Extracted from Robert B. Dilts ,“What is NLP “http://www.nlpu.com/NewDesign/NLPU_WhatIsNLP.html