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Over the past year our research has enabled us to corroborate the efficiency of stimulation through the Tomatis method and to find a direct relationship with the linguistic integration programme. The aim of the neurosensory stimulation process is to ‘reset’ the ear so you can understand the frequencies it contains by nature and which have been lost due to lack of use. The participants were between 19 and 59 years of age with a very different level of English among them. We would like to highlight that according to the results, the experience was successful and the majority of the participants appreciated their improvement in English acquisition, not only in listening but also in speaking.
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Pérez-Guillot, C. (2020). Neurosensory Auditory Stimulation and English as a Medium of Instruction. In: Carrió-Pastor, M. (eds) Internationalising Learning in Higher Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21587-3_10
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