Learning Languages

One of the best ways to broaden your minds and know something really useful is languages learning. Although the most important role in learning is for us, teacher is very important too.

There are some ways how teacher can help students. Firstly, it is important to give plenty of practice in speaking. Also, work in pairs or groups can be very useful, because when students communicate with each other they are more inclinable to learn. Regular tests, practice in pronunciation, different writing tasks are very important for students if they want to learn language better.

Moreover, when I’m learning I can help myself by discovering my own learning habits. Sometimes I record new vocabulary in a short phrase or sentence. It is very useful for me to read magazines and listen to spoken foreign language. In this way I can learn more unknown words which we don’t use in class. Furthermore, I think asking questions in class is very important too.

There are some habits which can be setbacks in learning. Students sometimes translate from their own language to another before they speak or write. It is bad because languages are very different: grammar, word order in sentences can be not the same. Also, a lot of people are bashful and afraid to speak in class because of their pronunciation or some other things. They have to be more self-confident and speak more due to improve their speaking habits.

Finally, there are a lot of different learning techniques and every person should choose the best for him. Even so, our achievements in learning depend only of our efforts.

Richard Wisemans' experiments

Professor Richard Wiseman has made research into several unusual areas of psychology, including luck, humour, deception, and the paranormal. His investigations spread all over the world and now Professor Wiseman and his experiments are very popular.

One of his works is about lucky and unlucky people. Professor Wiseman tried to understand why some people are happy ant lucky without any talents. This research identifies four basic principles which use lucky people in order to make their lives better and create good future.

Moreover, Professor Wiseman has made a widespread research about humour. This project was an internet-based and called ‘LaughLab’. The project was reported across the globe, resulting in receiving over 40,000 jokes and 1.5 million ratings. It discovers the world’s funniest joke.

All Professor Richard Wiseman experiments are very interesting. His magic tricks coherent with psychology are breathtaking. This modern-day psychologist can expand our knowledge and everybody should read about him and his experiments.

References:

http://www.richardwiseman.com/