Experiment In French Language Based Learning Of Guitar - Harness Learning Psychology Aspects
Process Option 01 - "Atune to Personal Motivation"
- Anything which furthers personal goals gets our attention (Lonsdale)
- Think long and hard about exactly why you want to learn another language, then leaverage that in your favour. It helps focus you on what parts of the language you want to learn and how well. It was through this that I came to discover my purpose was "in order to help me play my guitar better" (though I had absolutely no idea what that meant...grin). (Lewis, Chapter 1).
Process Option 02 - "Stimulants of Attention "
- Anything in the context which threatens our survival stimulates immediate attention and focus - cues are picked up very fast here. (Lonsdale)
Process Option 03 - "Personalized Meaning "
- Language learning which relates to something meaningful in our larger life-context maintains our interest (Lonsdale)
Process Option 04 - "Focus on Relevance "
- Try to keep focus of language learning activities and content relevant to you. (Lonsdale)
Process Option 05 - "Build on Existing Memory "
- Build on what you already know, like overlapping items which two languages have, and familiar subject matter (Lonsdale)
Process Option 06 - "Keep A Positive Emotional State"
- When people are in a negative emotional state they are not learning (Lonsdale)
Process Option 07- "Increase tollerance For Ambiguity"
- When language is new, make it a game to gain successive approximations to meaning, rather than insisting on perfection. (Lonsdale)
Process Option 08 - "Harness The Hawthorn Effect"
- Researchers are troubled by the "Hawthorn Effect". This is named after the factory where an experiment was conductied to find out what working conditions were most productive. The problem was everybody improved because they were being watched and involved. For those in the business of teaching and learning, it might be well to turn everything into an experiment in order to automaticlly get a "boost" in results. In this case it does not matter if "an experiment got botched"...we are learning not experimenting for real...but the effect works just the same.
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