Learning with all the senses

Gestures and pictures 'boost foreign language learning'

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig have accomplished a research which demonstrates that movements and images facilitate vocabulary learning.

Learning methods that involve several senses, and in particular those that use gestures, are therefore superior to those based only on listening or reading. A picture facilitates learning: our brain remembers words in a foreign language more easily.

Source: Max Planck Institute