Nice topic that reminds me of 1) the new brain-based learning movement in education that focuses on how the most successful teaching has to proceed from an understanding of how to use environmental and emotional stimuli to prime the student brains for learning (the excellent JALT website's "Mind-Brain Ed" monthly newsletter propagates the science and suggests the best pedagogical methods aligned to that science); and 2) more personally, from my own life as the only foreigner in a small Chinese town who, because he cannot converse with his fellow townspeople beyond elementary topics, has discovered that emotional cues like walking with his cute dog, smiling at and engaging with the toddlers and their grandparents who react to that dog, and simply smiling freely and frequently whenever eye contact is made returns loads of obvious good feeling on both sides.
Nice topic that reminds me of 1) the new brain-based learning movement in education that focuses on how the most successful teaching has to proceed from an understanding of how to use environmental and emotional stimuli to prime the student brains for learning (the excellent JALT website's "Mind-Brain Ed" monthly newsletter propagates the science and suggests the best pedagogical methods aligned to that science); and 2) more personally, from my own life as the only foreigner in a small Chinese town who, because he cannot converse with his fellow townspeople beyond elementary topics, has discovered that emotional cues like walking with his cute dog, smiling at and engaging with the toddlers and their grandparents who react to that dog, and simply smiling freely and frequently whenever eye contact is made returns loads of obvious good feeling on both sides.
Nice. I'll check out the website 👍🏽