Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an interpersonal communication model founded in the 1970s by Richard Bandler and John Grinder. NLP aims to study language, communication, and personal change to increase flexibility and choice. NLP techniques like anchoring, swish, and reframing are used to help people change behaviors and thought patterns. NLP can be applied in language learning by helping teachers understand student learning styles and helping students identify how they learn best. NLP uses in the classroom allow students to explore how they construct their understanding of the world and manage their own learning processes.

1. ENGLISH DIDACTICS: Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP)
Background of
NLP
• Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an interpersonal communications model and an
alternative approach that was co-founded by Richard Bandler and linguist John
Grinder in the 1970s as a method of personal change and communications.
WhatNLP
is
• Neuro-linguistic programming is an interpersonal communications model and an
alternative approach to psychotherapy based on the subjective study of language,
communication and personal change.
• Its aim is to increase choice in the underlying representations so that the individual has
more choice and flexibility in the world.
• "NLP may be best thought of as a system of psychology concerned with the self
development of the human being". Partridge (2003)
• It is not concerned whether a belief is true or not, but whether it is empowering or
disempowering.
Functions
• NLP claims to help people change by teaching them to program their brains.
• NLP was specifically created in order to allow us to do magic by creating new ways of
understanding how verbal and non-verbal communication affect the human brain.
• NLP is also used for individual psychotherapy for problems as diverse as phobias and
schizophrenia.
• NLP is collection of information or techniques that can enable you to improve how you
think, behave and feel.
Benefits
• Do whatever you already do reasonably well, even better
• Acquire skills and attitudes to do what you cannot do right now, but would like to be
able to do
• Think more clearly
• Communicate more effectively with others
• Manage your thoughts, moods and behaviours more effectively.
Techniques
• Anchoring: Thi technique means the the process by which memory recall, state change
or other responses become associated with some stimulus, in such a way that
perception of the stimulus leads by reflex to the anchored response occurring.
• Swish: It is a process of disrupting a pattern of thought from one that leads to an
unwanted behavior to one that leads to a desired behavior.
• Reframing: It is the process whereby an element of communication is presented so as
to shift an individual's perception of the meanings or "frames" attributed to words,
phrases and events.

2. NLPin language
learning
•NLP can help a language teacher understand the modes of their
students and apply teaching strategies accordingly.
•Also, it helps students identify the way they learn best, so they can
apply it in differentspaces, like at school.
•You can apply it to reading and writing skills in English.
Types of
learners
•Some of us thinkbest in pictures (visual).
•Some of us in sounds (auditory).
•Some of us like to process our thoughts through ourbodies
(kinaesthetic).
NLPin theclassroom
• NLP used in Language Teaching tells us about how we, ourselves and our
students, think and learn.
• It does this by enabling us to explore the structure of our own subjective
experience: how we construct our view of the world.
• NLP techniques enable us to demonstrate to students their own inner learning
processes. This brings them much closer to learning to manage their own rich
internal software: their images, sounds and feelings.
• Bit-by-bit they will come to understand and even learn how to control the way
they think. In short they will learn how to learn.
OPINIONS
I find this technique really interesting
since it eneables people to know
how they learn and also to control it
by using some specific methods.
Also it works in the classroom, so it's
an iteresting approach for educators
to make our labor even more
meaningful, because it provide us
with important information about
our own students and ourselves.