Abstract:

The neurolinguistic approach (NLA), in 2010 developed by Joan Netten, an anglophone scholar (Newfoundland and Labrador’s Memorial University) and Claude Germain, a francophone scholar (Université du Québec à Montréal) is a rather new paradigm for the learning and teaching of second and foreign languages. Drawing on a study of existing research in neurolinguistics (especially the works of Michael Paradis (2004), Netten and Germain (2012) established a fundamental framework that resulted in such seminal works as "A new paradigm for the learning of a second or foreign language: The neurolinguistic approach" (2012) and The Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA) for Learning and Teaching Foreign Languages (2018) among others.

The present paper discusses the five principles of NLA such as:
(1) internal and external grammars,
(2) literacy and the pedagogy of a sentence,
(3) emphasizing meaning and using project-based pedagogy;
(4) authenticity, and
(5) social interaction in relation to a small-scale research conducted at two Higher Education institutions in Kaunas, Lithuania.

Keywords:

Neurolinguistic Approach (NLA), second/foreign language acquisition, internal grammar, external grammar, project-based pedagogy.