The Neuro-cognitive Method is one of my best teaching and training methods. I have researched it in my Master's thesis, honed it over the many years of teaching english experience that I have. In this article, I am going to briefly outline the neurological principle lying behind the method, explain how the method works my the classroom environment while giving english tutoring classes (and outside), and give an example or two to ifllustrate the ideas being put forward.
This novel teaching english method is based on one important finding in neurology, which is the science studying the human brain. Put simply, there is a neurological principle called "Use it or Lose it". This means that the language learning (or any other subject) will become successful learners if they are given multiple opportunities to review and reuse the same content from time to time, and over the entirety of a subject course. Popularly expressed as "Practice makes PERFECT," the method requires instructors and syllabus designers to ensure that there is a cyclicality built with the programme to be taught which allows to revise the content of Unit 01, for example, in Unit 05, Unit 02 in Unit 06, ...etc.
To give but one example of how this method should be applied as an english teacher, I am going to detail how I managed to hammer 100 words into my learners of one semester. To elaborate on what I explicate above, I had had the chance of working with a select group of TOEIC trainees, and their main issue was with the Reading section of the test, i.e. vocabulary and grammar.
To conclude, I do consider this method as higly effective in achieving some specific learning goals (TOEIC vocabulary, for instance) in a relatively short time. Besides, it gives the opportunity to the learner to practise what they are learning under any of the four skills they are targeting, namely reading, writing, listening, and/or speaking.