I have been a teacher of the English language for ... years at a private Moscow secondary school and I have always wondered how learning works. In order to be able to help my pupils be more successful I have explored different fields of scientific knowledge, such as psychology and neurolinguistics, as well as various teaching techniques. To obtain a better command of the subject I even tried to learn a new foreign language on my own. Finally, willing to get all my knowledge classified and systematised, I made a decision to undertake a TKT course.