Abstract Nowadays, the number of people determined to acquire a foreign language has increased and that makes the number of learning methods rise for the needs of individuals. Therefore, we tend to choose the best method depending on the situation from a variety of methods some of which were proposed hundreds of years ago to today. In Chapter One, we look at traditional learning methods and compares them. At the same time, we focus on the new way of learning system called Brain-based learning (BBL) which briefly consists of three parts; processing language in our brain, emotions and memories. There is not so much BBL research but BBL can be expected as one of the learning methods enable learners to acquire language meaningfully. In Chapter Two, we explained the process and the result of the experiment and questionnaire. To examine how useful BBL is for language learning, we compared the methods using a single element like written practice or reading practice to the method using phonological loop as a part of BBL. In Chapter we discussed the results from the experiment done in Chapter Two. The results show that BBL can be effective for long term memory development of word knowledge. For example, the preference of our learning styles doesn’t match our best learning methods. In other words, the person can learn more effectively with a method which he or she doesn’t normally use than the method s/he does. In the experiment, the number of subjects who actually got higher score with the method they don’t usually use was 62%. As for BBL, the method using phonological memory which
Abstract Nowadays, the number of people determined to acquire a foreign language has increased and that makes the number of learning methods rise for the needs of individuals. Therefore, we tend to choose the best method depending on the situation from a variety of methods some of which were proposed hundreds of years ago to today. In Chapter One, we look at traditional learning methods and compares them. At the same time, we focus on the new way of learning system called Brain-based learning (BBL) which briefly consists of three parts; processing language in our brain, emotions and memories. There is not so much BBL research but BBL can be expected as one of the learning methods enable learners to acquire language meaningfully. In Chapter Two, we explained the process and the result of the experiment and questionnaire. To examine how useful BBL is for language learning, we compared the methods using a single element like written practice or reading practice to the method using phonological loop as a part of BBL. In Chapter we discussed the results from the experiment done in Chapter Two. The results show that BBL can be effective for long term memory development of word knowledge. For example, the preference of our learning styles doesn’t match our best learning methods. In other words, the person can learn more effectively with a method which he or she doesn’t normally use than the method s/he does. In the experiment, the number of subjects who actually got higher score with the method they don’t usually use was 62%. As for BBL, the method using phonological memory which
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