Mind-Body Connection IELTS Listening Reading Practice Watch this video on YouTube. Mind-Body Connection IELTS Listening Reading Practice Lecturer, author or publisher: Maryam Alimardani on TED-Ed Mind-Body Connection IELTS Reading Practice The Rubber Hand Illusion Look at your hand. How do you know it’s really yours? It seems obvious unless you’ve experienced the rubber hand illusion. In this experiment, a…
English Presentation Self-Awareness English Presentation Self-Awareness Watch this video on YouTube. LELB Society’s Lecturer: Sasan Handout Provided by the Lecturer Is it important to be aware of your strengths and weaknesses? Why? Do you think limiting children’s freedom can damage their abilities to know themselves? How time-consuming is it to know yourself?
Attention Attention is viewed as a mainly conscious process involving working memory (Ellis, 2008). Suchert (2004) defines attention as “A process in which biological mechanisms interact when goal-directed behaviours and stimulus-driven responses converge in action (p. 144). Schmidt (1990, 1993, 1994) has argued that attention is essential to learning; that is, there is no learning…
Cortex Cortex or cerebral cortex covers the surface of the brain and is only 2-4 mm (0.08-0.16 inches) thick. It plays a central role in such functions as memory, attention, perceptual awareness, language, and consciousness. The outermost part of the cortex is grey in color, hence the common term ‘grey matter’. The inner layers are…
Meditation Techniques Meditation can revitalize your mind, keep it calm and help you to control your mind, thoughts and life. Alpha waves that are activated during meditation can make your brain become more relaxed. Get into a comfortable place and relax your body. You should not be disturbed at all. Take some deep breaths. Close…
Consciousness and Mindfulness As humans, we have this potential to practice consciousness and alertness in our tasks to reap the numerous benefits attributed to this unique trait. Techniques for Enhancing Consciousness Imagine that you have reached the summit of a mountain, and from that altitude, you are watching or observing the other parts of the…
Subconscious Mind – IELTS Speaking practice Subconscious Mind – IELTS Speaking Practice Argue for/against Please take an either positive or negative position to the statement below. You cannot be neutral. If all students have the same idea, the teacher will play devil’s advocate to have a heated argument. There are many successful and happy people…
Noticing Hypothesis in second language learning Noticing Hypothesis Schmidt (1990) claimed that attention to input is a conscious process. He viewed noticing (i.e. registering formal features in the input) and noticing the gap (i.e. identifying how the input to which the learner is expected differs from the output the learner is able to generate) as…