The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Emotional Mastery 2 Main Text
The Effortless English Club Automatic English For The People Emotional Mastery 2 Main Text
Hello and welcome to the next lesson "Emotional Mastery 2." So in Emotional Mastery
1 we learned about changing our physiology, changing our bodies to change our
emotions. Remember in that less I said there are two ways to change your emotions.
Number one is physiology, we talked about that. There is something else you can
change so you can be in a peak emotional state as you learn English and that is your
focus, your mental focus. What you think about consistently, that will change your
emotion also. So what do I mean by mental focus? How do you change your mental
focus? What should you focus on? What should you not focus on?
First, let's talk about the negative. What should you not focus on? Try to remember
when you were in school in your English classes. What did you focus on when you
were in school? What did you think about, worry about, consistently, frequently? Well
probably tests, right? That was one I always thought about. You probably were focused
on tests a lot. “I gotta pass this test, I gotta pass this test." Tests, and then grades.
"Will I get an A? Will I get a B? Will I get a C? Will I fail this course?" So you were
thinking about judgment, other people judging you, the teacher judging you, getting a
grade, getting a score. How did you feel about that? When you think about tests, tests,
tests a lot and you think a lot about a score, a grade, A, B, C.
Or maybe now you're thinking about the TOEFL exam and you're worried "What number
will I get on the TOEFL exam?" How does that affect your emotions? Do you feel more
relaxed or more stressful? Well, most people feel more stressful, of course. The more
you think about judgment, the more you think about a test score, the more nervous you
become, the more worried you become. And that's not good. You actually learn more
slowly when you're worried. You learn more slowly when you're nervous, when you
have anxiety.
Again, l'll talk about Dr. Stephen Krashen, our favorite researcher. Anxiety is a major
part of his research. It is the single number one most negative factor in language
acquisition, in language learning. Anxiety means worry or stress and there are many,
many studies about this. They study different language learners, study different English
learners. And they put them in a situation where they are more stressed or more
worried. And they have others that are in a more relaxed situation. And the relaxed
students always learn better and faster.
So let's say after six months the relaxed students will have better grammar, better
pronunciation, better listening and understanding, better writing skill, better everything.
The anxious students, the worried, nervous students, the stressed students, of course,
have worse pronunciation, worse speaking ability, less vocabulary, worse writing, less
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