Dina Nikulicheva - Modeling Polyglots in Search for the Diversity of Learners

Modeling Polyglots in Search for the Diversity of Learners: Personality-focused Training in Second Language Acquisition The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how revealing and applying individual perceptual patterns helps any individual language-learner to accelerate the process of language acquisition and to obtain sustainable results. Studying polyglots in the process of language learning has made it clear that their cognitive abilities differ significantly. Three basic input strategies can be traced: visual, auditory and sensory. But the common feature is that each polyglot relies predominantly on his/her most developed capabilities (strengths) thus creating and enhancing an individual language-learning strategy. As a result a special group experiment was designed to elicit people’s individual strategies for memorizing words of a foreign language. Analyzing how the same lexemes were memorized by different people, we studied the specifics of internal anchoring of linguistic data by people of different perceptive types: namely, people with more advanced strategies of auditory / visual / sensory input of linguistic information. The suggested exercise on eliciting individual strategies of memorizing words of a foreign language is aimed at demonstrating how to become aware of one’s most efficient word-memorizing patterns and how to use them to intensively enlarge one’s vocabulary. Polyglot-Centre.ru Join us at: PolyglotConference.com fb.com/PolyglotConference fb.com/groups/PolyglotConference twitter.com/Polyglot_Confer instagram.com/PolyglotConference The Language Event Join us at: TheLanguageEvent.com fb.com/TheLanguageEvent fb.com/groups/TheLanguaageEventEdinburgh fb.com/groups/TheLanguageEventAuckland fb.com/groups/ThelanguageEventMelbourne twitter.com/PolyglotMeetup instagram.com/TheLanguageEvent Filming & Editing: Simos Batzakis