Tham khảo tài liệu 'getting out reading 1', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | HOW TO STUDY WHAT S IMPORTANT TO YOU Find Out You have your lecture tape and or notes you have your reading log and or tape you understand what you ve read the lecture made sense to you. You know it now and you want to know it tomorrow and the next day and . Ask yourself and answer in your notebook What do I want to remember Why is this important to me Memorizing vs. Remembering In his Spanish class Jeff was given a list of vocabulary words to learn. There were Spanish words in one column and their corresponding English words in the other. Jeff took the list and memorized all the Spanish words. He read them out loud. He put the list on his bedroom mirror on his refrigerator in his notebook and on his TV set. Jeff felt he knew those words. Then came the test. He took one look at it and froze. His Spanish teacher had changed the order of the words and Jeff had memorized the list in a certain order. He could repeat the exact list but he couldn t translate them at random. He hadn t learned the words. Jeff see box can try out the new words he s learning not by memorizing but by using them in conversation even with friends or family who don t know Spanish He can speak or write in English and substitute one of his new Spanish words when appropriate. When he knows more Spanish he can include a sentence in Spanish while he s speaking or writing in English. He can also try to become more involved with Spanish by watching a Spanish TV show listening to a Spanish radio program or looking at a Spanish newspaper. LONG AND SHORT MEMORY There are basically two different kinds of remembering long-term and short-term. To better understand the difference think of your brain as a parking facility. One part of it specializes in parking new information for only a few days. If the new information is reinforced it gets shifted to long 86 REMEMBERING WHAT you ve learned term parking. Think of the long-term parking lot as your grandmother memory because that s where emotional memories are .
