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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
A few days later, you see the word again, but again cannot remember its meaning. Why?
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
It is easy to blame yourself or think, “I have a terrible memory!” But your memory is not the problem.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
The problem is that translating a word to its equivalent word in your language is not an effective way to learn vocabulary
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This is because it does not create strong connections in the brain, something critical for remembering information.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
To really learn words, you have to bring attention to them and connect them with mental images or your existing knowledge.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This helps your brain recall words quickly and easily when you need them.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
On today’s Education Tips, we will discuss three methods that use images to retain vocabulary.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Danielle Zelin is an English teacher and teacher trainer.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
She has taught for nearly 25 years, including in South Africa, Latvia and Mauritius, her homeland.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Zelin says visual aids are important for language learners because humans think in images. “When we hear a sentence...[when] somebody is talking to us, we see the pictures.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
We don’t see the words. We don’t see the sentence in our brain. Like ‘Yesterday, I went to the beach.’
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
If I tell you that, you will see me on the beach. You will not see the sentence in written form.”
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
She uses pictures or images with her beginning students and some of her mid-level students.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Cristiane Galvão has used pictures to teach vocabulary to students of every level, from grade school to the university level.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Galvão, who is based in California, has taught English for 20 years, including in the United States and Brazil.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
She suggests learners make visual dictionaries with pictures from the internet, for example.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This would involve writing an English word next to its image. Before you make the dictionary, think about your goals, she says.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
If the goal is to reinforce what you already learned about, put the words in alphabetical order. And organize them into related groups.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
But if the goal is to write a sentence using each new word, then you probably do not need to put the words into groups.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
These are mental tools you can use to recall information better. Most mnemonics tools involve creating mental imagery to trigger your memory.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Some of you have probably already done this without realizing there is a name for it. One great mnemonics tool is keywords.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This involves making a mental image that ties two similar-sounding words together. Take the word “bald” as an example.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
It means having little or no hair. The word “ball” sounds like “bald” and can help us remember the target word.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
In your mind, make a mental picture of a ball with a face on it. Then, picture it with no hair on top, maybe a little on the sides.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Keep this image in your mind for maybe 15 seconds.
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