PERSONALIZED LEARNING - EXPERT NLP

n nSo what does personalized learning really mean and why is everyone within the education and training communities getting so excited. In the first of three articles we take a look at personalized learning , from an NLP perspective .In this the first of three articles we profile the Auditory Sequential thinker in plain language . In subsequent articles we profile the Kinaesthetic and Visual Thinkers . All three articles are available on our site now , all three articles represent bleeding edge psychological insights , content that will published for the first time anywhere . This represents an exclusive for self growth and electronic-labs.co.uk . n

THE AUDITORY THINKER

nnUnlike Eastern language , western script has a phonological base nmeaning that language is both visual and auditory . The visual aspect of language isa substitution cipher , no logic , no reason , a discrete set of symbols combine into an infinite system . Inside the cortex a language module exists which processes these symbols into terms the auditory thinkers can relate to words , phases and sentences .The speed of this processing is dependent on the base span , how effectively can you chunk information . n n nn
nCounter intuitively the implications for short term and working memory nare favorable in relation to written texts . nn

PROFILE : Auditory Thinkers

nn nnProfile : When engaged in auditory thinking there is often small rhythmic movements of the body the head is well balanced and tilted to one side as if listening , breathing is even across the chest area , tonality is clear and resonant, there may be gestures to the ears and use of language which is evocative of auditory processing . nn

Auditory Eye Accessing Cues

nIt has been established that for a the majority of right handed people when trying create ansound , eyes will move across and to the right , when trying to recall , nacross and to the left. The Eye movement during reading text is prescribed , nleft to right , suggesting written text is a natural fit for the auditory thinker style. nnn

Hidden Subtext

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Sub Modalities

nLearning Channel : Audio nn
nSub modalities are identified as the quality of the senses a term first used by Aristotle .nSimply by being aware of these qualities you improve the short term and working memory recall . n

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Stereo/Monon

Words or Sounds [actor/musician]n

Volume [load or soft]n

Tone [soft or harsh] n

Timbre [fullness of sound ]n

Location n

Distance from Sound []n

Duration []n

Continuos or discontinuous []n

Speed[faster or slower than usual]n

Clarity [clear or muffled ]nnnnnnApplying sub modalities to a written text , the words/sounds distinction is key . nShakespearean actors overlay the text with implicit meaning by altering sub modalities .nChurchill , John F Kennedy and Martin Luther Kings speeches are paced to leave an imprint on the nsub conscious . By emphasizing Tone , Volume and Continuity the important messages are hard wired ninto the subconscious by sound alone . nn

Auditory/Kinethesitic

nnModeling of musicians who can play by ear , reveals that on hearing a piece of music for the first timenthe first act is often to attach a kinesthetic anchor by assigning a mood to the piece , eye accessing ncues are across and to the left for the majority , posture is as you would expect that of someone nlistening intently . Interestingly many musicians also report that a visual trace of the music close to nnotation is created . When the piece has finished the music is played back usually much faster while nretaining original tonality , this time however internally . On hearing the music for the nsecond time music is broken down to look for repetitive patterns in pitch and tonality . Of ninterest is the fact that where the music is complex auditory memory is bolstered by feelings which nanchor context for the detailed image . Finally when playing the music back a kinesthetic motor action nis attached. nnn

Auditory/Visual

nnA percentage of the population when reading a text will sub vocalize , resulting in a lead system whichnis in conflict with the preferred visual system . Routing information into short term auditory tape nloop storage , which requires constant repetition , probably initiated through internal dialog . nWithout repetition short term and working memory is likely to be very weak as the subject will look to nretrieve information from visual memory . Since written text fails to deliver a context recall will nbe patchy . The solution is to look to anchor the text into a visual long term context by nimposing visual analogies and similes . Through anchoring the cognitive model can be stabilized .nA robust model is less vulnerable to inertia , less resistant to change , less likely to be incomplete nand less vulnerable to the jigsaw effect , often referred to as cognitive colleges. The jigsaw effect nis where you become familiar with the individual pieces or parts of the picture , but not with how thenpieces comprise the whole . nnn

Language nLearning Channel : Auditory

nnThe point of language is to communicate , in order to achieve it's goal language has to bridge the gap nof competing representational systems . The words and phrasing we use in life reflect our nrepresentation system . nn

Words

Rhythm , tone , resonate , monotonous , sound , clear , audible , listen, harmonious , silence , quiet: nVocal , shout , tell , speechless , ring , remark , accent . nn

Phrasing

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Word for Word n

Living in harmonyn

On the same wavelengthn

Unheard of n

Load and Clea

Turn a deaf ea

Music to my earsn

Rings a belln

All Greek to me n

Mumbo Jumbo n

Hold your tongue nnnUse of language in a statistically significant manner together with speed , tonality , posture and body nlanguage should indicate a leaning towards one of the representational systems . nn

Cognitive Model

nnThe auditory thinker will given the choice seek to internalize information as words and phases . If travelling by the London underground navigation might be internalized as east on the Piccadilly ,then east on the red line . The evidence suggests that for the ear minded , written language is a god send . Eye accessing cues during reading are from left to right . The medium of the message is the word , which means that subconscious triggers are already likely to be encoded into the text .The memory trace for the auditory thinker will revolve around major and minor sub headings . encoding order and structure into the subconscious cognitive model . A superior ability to utilise synonyms is an advantagewhen it comes to recovering detailed memory from a cognitive model which resembles a high level word driven menu . nnnnThe auditory model may also provide an explanation for technical jargon , rather than a crude attempt to exclude the layman . Jargon exists to utilize a principle of engineering called the black box , which is designed to shield engineers from complexity . Appropriate use of well chosen headings and nsub headings to set the context and technical language to chunk the content will strengthen the model . nnn