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REMEMBERING WORDS

1. Vocabulary Knowledge

   • Accumulating individuals items

2. How does memory work?

   • Short-term store
     • Brain´s capacity to hold limited number of itmes of information for seconds
   • Working memory
     • Cognitive Task
       • Reasoning
       • Learning
       • Understanding
     • Mental Sketch pad
       • Mnemonics
     • Make associations Like TANGI_TANGO
       • ARTICULATORY LOOP
         • Process of Subvocal repetition
         • It can Hold fewer L2 words than L1 words
   • Long-term memory
     • Filing System
     • Has a enormous capacity
     • Content are durable overtime
     • Principles to facilitate material storage in LTM
       • Repetition
         • Little long-term effect
         • Retrieval
           • Retrieval practice effect
             • EX: Using the new word in written sentences
       • Spacing
         • Distributed practice
           • Ex: new presented vocabulary should be reviewed in the next lesson
       • Pacing
         • Students should be given the opportunity to pace their own rehearsal avtivities
       • Personal organizing
         • The judgments that learners make about a word are most effective if they are personalised
       • Use
         • Putting words to use
       • Cognitive Depth
         • The more decisiosns learners make about a word the better the word is remembered
       • Imagining
         • Visualising a mental picture to go with a new word
       • Mnemonincs
         • Keyword techniques
       • Attention arousal
         • Improving vocabulary by listenign a tape while your are slleping
       • Affective Depth
         • Information is stored along with cognitive

3. Why do we forget words?

   • Interference from subsequent
     • Overload
   • Insufficient recycling
   • Remedy aganst forgetting
     • Recycling
       • Use a word in a different way from the way it was taught
         • Learning Achieved

4. What makes a word difficult

   • False Friends
   • Pronuantiation
   • Spelling
   • Length and complexity
   • Grammar
   • Meaning
   • Range, Connotation and idiomaticity
   • What makes a word easy
     • Cognate
     • Lean words