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Let's look a little deeper into the value of mnemonics for knowledge acquisition. By “knowledge acquisition”, I mean the sort of information you learn from textbooks — information that is not personal, that you need for the long-term. In this context, I believe the chief value of mnemonic... |
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Coding mnemonic
Coding mnemonics are used for encoding numbers. Because words are much easier for most of us to remember, a system that transforms numbers into letters is one of the best ways for remembering numbers — as seen in the modern innovation of encoding phone numbers into letters (0800-... |
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In the mid-seventies, Raugh and Atkinson had remarkable results using the keyword method to teach Russian vocabulary to college students. While later studies have not tended to find such dramatic results, nevertheless, a large number of studies have demonstrated an advantage in using the keyword... |
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Find out about the pegword mnemonic To celebrate Māori Language Week here in Aotearoa (New Zealand), I've put together a pegword set in te reo:
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Find out about the pegword mnemonic Here are pegwords I've thought up in the Spanish language. As with the original example, let's try it out with our cranial nerves. En español, los nervios craneales son:
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I have updated my Mnemonics for Study book. The two main changes are that each chapter now has review questions, and there's an extra chapter which is a very detailed step-by-step case study, showing how and when to use mnemonics to learn the Geological Time Scale. There are lots of visuals, ... |
