Benefits of Autonomy in a Synesthetic Learner: Awareness and Understanding of Learning Styles Conditioned by Grapheme-Colour SynaesthesiaDvoršek, Leja (Avtor) Sicherl, Eva (Mentor) grapheme-colour synaesthesiaassociative learningmnemonic deviceEnglish as L2Grapheme-colour synaesthesia is firmly linked to a written text and thus offers the possibility of being utilized by grapheme-colour synaesthetes as a tool for learning a (foreign) language. This M. A. thesis examines and compares cognitive processes of two grapheme-colour synaesthetes as learners of English as L2. Through the method of a closed interview, it first evaluates the scope and workings of the participants’ synaesthetic perceptions (e.g. whole-word colour, effect of neighbouring letters, focus on morphemes, etc.), and secondly, it examines possible unique learning strategies based on associations between concurrent colours and the mental imagery of words. In other words, it examines how a grapheme-colour synaesthete perceives letters in a word, and how he/she can use the perceived colours as a mnemonic aid, especially in the English language, which is orthographically complex. The findings show that grapheme-colour synaesthesia has great potential to be consistently used as a mnemonic aid. However, identifying synaesthesia should first become a common practice in schools, in order for the synaesthetes to start actively utilizing it. Autonomy in the creation of one‘s own learning strategy, supported by one’s perceived concurrent colours, is of great importance due to the idiosyncratic nature of synaesthetic perceptions.20222022-02-22 10:41:45Magistrsko delo/naloga135090sl