Neurolanguage Coaching: Brain Friendly Language Learning

by Rachel Paling

- why the brain blocks when learning a language
- which coaching and teaching methods are brain-friendly – and which are brain-zappers
- how to harness principles of coaching and neuroscience to give your learner fantastic results, every time.
It seems every day an exciting new discovery is made about the human brain. Neurolanguage Coaching is a model that brings together crucial findings in the fields of neuroscience and integrates these into a coaching process to revolutionise language learning as we know it.
As well as highlighting evidence of interest to all practising and aspiring language coaches, this book offers invaluable insight distilled from years of coaching, and from teaching other coaches, giving practical advice to fit any coaching situation, and every highly unique brain.
Within is also a toolkit full of new, tried-and-tested, brain-friendly Neurolanguage coaching models, as well as how and why applying these Neurolanguage Coaching techniques can lead to more happy, fluent and confident learners.
This is a book for language teachers, educators, language learners, polyglots, coaches interested in languages and anyone who is interested to discover more about their own brain!

146 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 2017

Reviews

[Jessica Tefenkgi Ruelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's an easy read with interesting reflexions, but I found the product placement (the coaching training that Rachel Paling created) much too obvious to the point that it made me feel I was reading an advertisement.

[Alba · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a must for language teachers and learners.

[Leniwa Wenus · Rating 5 out of 5]

Having just completed Rachel Paling’s Neurolanguage Coaching course, I have to admit this was a great consolidation. Therefore I am giving it a five. I am now curious how I would have reacted to the book if I had read it first. Would it make perfect sense like it does now…

[Sabrina Fedato · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is very interesting and offers valuable insight. However, I find it challenging to implement Paling’s suggestions in practice. As she emphasizes, student motivation and intention are critical for success. I work in a public school where only a small number of students are motivated, which makes it difficult to apply these methods effectively. While Paling suggests that the teacher can serve as the primary source of motivation, this is often easier said than done, especially when many students lack interest in attending school altogether. In my opinion, the approach described in the book can only be applied to private, one-to-one lessons, rather than a traditional classroom setting, unfortunately.

[Denise Tyson A. Mensah · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first section of the book is useful because of the information provided about neuroscience and learning. However, much of the coaching method developed by the author is identical to what good teachers already do in our work.

[Jirina Kaletova · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an interesting approach to language. In a way, it says the opposite of what I used to think was the best for language learning, but I can see the effectivity of this approach. I will use some of the methods in my work and will continue researching more about Neurolanguage Coaching.