Getting Otni Your Ightr Mind
The Protanceim of Holwe Brain Elaring to ELT
Kate Hyde Senior English Language Fellow
Bogota Colombia
Getting Into Your Right Mind
The Importance of Whole Brain Learning to
ELT
Kate Hyde Senior English Language Fellow
Bogota Colombia
Today’s
Agenda
Gestalt
Jigsaw Reading
Predicting
Self – Analysis
Ordering Activity
Metaphor
Discussion
Activities
Find The Hidden Tiger
1. Learning institutions shouldn’t pay
attention to individualization of
instruction because we all learn in the
same way.
2. Left brain preference relies on using
words in remembering language.
3. Learning a foreign language is
enhanced by a defensive language
approach.
4- Intelligence is strongly linked to
successful language learning
5- Children when learning second
languages first focus on grammatical
correctness.
6- Adults/adolescents when learning
second languages focus first on
establishing social relationships.
7- Adults/adolescents when learning second
languages focus first on establishing social
relationships.
8- Our current definition of thinking
emphasizes imagery and intuitive process.
9- Most creative discoveries have come from
using only the left brain.
10- One form of processing (right or left brain)
is superior to the other.
11- Making full use of the two-sided mind
requires giving up books and lectures.
12- Finding ways to include tactile, visual and
auditory modalities s/not be a part of lesson
planning.
Scoring your test results
ADD UP THE NUMBERS YOU
CIRCLED
28-32 -High right brain
23-27 -Moderate right
brain
Your score should be 18-22 -Neutral
between 8 and 32 13-17 -Moderate left brain
12-8 - High left brain
Right or Left Brain ?
Analytical reader Planned and structured
Intellectual/Logical Prefers established,
Controls feelings defined information
Multiple choice tests (Facts)
Names Objective
Rarely uses metaphor
Talking and writing Not good at
interpreting body
Verbal instructions/and language
explanations words, text
in language thinking
Right or left brain?
Synthesizing Prefers less –defined
information (Inference)
reader Subjective
Intuitive/Feeling Good at interpreting
Essay tests body language
Symbolic
Faces
/demonstrated
Drawing and instructions
manipulating Images in language
Metaphor thinking
Warmers/
What could it be? Review
Scrambled
Sentences /words
Walking warmers
Miming
Adverbs
Picture
Drawing
Toggling Between the 2
Vocabulary
Journals
S’s draw
and
paraphase
Pictionary
Number
dictation
Invisible
Elephant
Odd 1 Out
Missing Person Poster
Who ?
What ?
When ?
Where?
How old?
How tall?
Last seen
wearing?
Tombstones
Word Count
Drawing
Fantasy
Character
Description
Summary/
Synthesize
I feel……I like/don’t like…..
Student feedback
Likes /Dislikes
I feel…..
I would like more/less in the
class
Metaphor
Mind Mapping
Teachers can….so students can…
Teachers
Show more
Tell less
Students
Draw,
Act out, imagine, fantasize
Sing, dance, move
Express feelings
What else?
Tips 4 Positive Change
KISS- Make Simple Changes
Start with 1 new technique and make it a part of every
lesson
Look at Learning as 3 Processes
Information is taken in
Information is processed
Students express understanding of info in some
way
Include right and left processes in your lesson
planning to include these 3 processes
Which side of the brain do these
activities activate?
Map drawing Scrambled
Role playing words/sentences
Objects to be Charts
manipulated Reflection experience
Singing TPR
Choosing a new Authentic Materials
identity Realia
Cartooning Visuals
Grammar games Using color
What are they?
T V A
Always include these 3 modes in your
lesson planning
Thanks 4 coming! k8ddid@[Link]
5 Minute Activities
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Penny Ur
Fun with Grammar
Betty Azar
Teaching 4 the 2-Sided
Mind
Linda Verlee Williams Breaking the Language Barrier
H . Douglas Brown