LEARNING TECHNIQUES

LEARNING TECHNIQUES

1. PRACTICE TESTING

   • An informal examination taken as a preparation for an actual or formal examination.

2. INTERLEAVED PRACTICE

   • When you are learning two or more related concepts or skills, instead of focusing exclusively on one concept or skill at a time, it can be helpful to alternate between them.

3. SUMMARIZATION

   • The act of expressing the most important facts or ideas about something or someone in a short and clear form, or a text in which these facts or ideas are expressed.

4. HIGHLIGHTING AND UNDERLINING

   • Is used to help students organize what they have read by selecting what is important.

5. DISTRIBUTED PRACTICE

   • A learning procedure in which practice periods for a particular task are separated by lengthy rest periods or lengthy periods of practicing different activities or studying other material, rather than occurring close together in time.

6. ELABORATIVE INTERROGATION

   • Elaborative interrogation is a strategy for enhancing memory during the process of learning.

7. REREADING

   • Repeating, Reviewing, and Remembering. The more we engage with a story, the more we take away.

8. SELF-EXPLANATION

   • Is a learning technique in which students explain to themselves pieces of a learning material for the purpose of improving their understanding.

9. THE KEYWORD MNEMONIC

   • Is an elaborative rehearsal strategy used to help encode information more effectively so that you can easily memorize and recall it.

10. IMAGERY USE FOR TEXT LEARNING

    • By using imagery, writers can evoke the feeling they want to talk about in their readers.