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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
