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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
The next time you try to recall “bald,” it will be easier because of the keyword and connected imagery.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Alex Mullen is a biomedical engineer and one of the world’s top memory competitors. In 2016, he was the USA Memory Champion.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Mullen calls the mnemonics keywords tool “the art of memory” because your mind makes a kind of picture stories.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
In his video on mnemonics keywords, he talks about remembering the target word corral by joining its imagery with an image of a sea coral
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
He draws a group of stick figures trapped -- or corralled in a coral. In real life, you would probably make a mental image rather than a drawing.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
But Mullen’s drawing demonstrates the idea of connecting a mental image of the target word with its keyword.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
In a word map, you write a central word or idea in the middle and connect it with lines to related words.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This helps to build mental associations between related ideas. Danielle Zelin gives the example of the word “sharp.”
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
If you center that word, you can connect it to words of things that are sharp, such as knife, paper and scissors.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Zelin says words are much easier to remember when they have meaning in your own life. For instance, one of her French students has an English-speaking dentist.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
So, she learned words that she needed for her recent dental visit. Cristiane Galvão also says that context is important.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
She uses word maps in the classroom only after she has already discussed a subject and shown pictures.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
This makes the words meaningful before putting them into map form. Otherwise, she says, you are just reading and memorizing words, which is a bad idea.
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
“Vocabulary is a big part of language learning. So, the more meaningful it is, the easier it is for the student to absorb
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Images Can Help You Retain Vocabulary
Galvão says not every student will learn through a word map. But the maps can help you visualize and create a method that works for you.
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immediately
immediately
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Inflation eased slightly last month, according to figures released this morning.
Inflation eased slightly last month, according to figures released this morning.
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Innit bruv, I told you that the weather
Innit bruv, I told you that the weather
- Creator videogeneral-american
Inside the Mind of a Master Procrastinator — Tim Urban
So in college, I was a government major,
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Interactive Vowel Sounds Chart
Hello there! This is the "Sounds American" channel.
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interesting
interesting
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Interview with David Attenborough — Attenborough at 90
there's been a huge shift in the way
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It cost an arm and a leg
It cost an arm and a leg
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a go…
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may…
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It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winst…
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly thr…
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