it's the brain's capacity to hold a limited number of information for
periods of time up to a few seconds
Working memory
it's to focus on words for long enough to perform operations
on them, that information can come from the exterior or the
interior (long-term memory)
Cognitive tasks
reasoning
learning
understanding
articulatory loop
it's the process of subvocal repetition
it enables the STS to be kept refreshed
its holding capacity seems to be a
determining factor in the ability to
language learning
"the longer the
loop, the better the
learner"
Recycling
It's the spaced review of the learned material can
dramatically reduce the rate of forgetting. But the words
needs to be used in different ways aparte from the way in
which was learned, not just repeating it over and over.
Long-term memory
Some principles must be observed in order
to make the material or information move
to the permanent LTM
Affective depth
Affective and cognitive data are stored
together & play an equally important
role on how words are stored and
recalled
Attention / Arousal
It seems that there's a correlation between
attention and recall because with a high
degree of attention, the "remember" part is
improved
Motivation
if the learner has a stron
motivation, it's more likely to
spend more time on rehearsal &
practice, which in the end will pay
off in terms of memory
Mnemonics
"tricks" used to help retrieve items that
are stored, but not yet automatically
retrievable to use
Imaging
To visualize a mental
picture to go with the new
word learned
Personal organizing
The judgements that learners
make about word are most
effective when personalised
Cognitive depth
it's important that many decissions
are made by the learner about that
word. And, the more cognitively
demanding these decissions are, the
better the word is remembered,
Use
To use the words learned
in n interesting and
appealing way
Pacing
to process the data at the
learners' pace, not too fast, not
too slow
Spacing
It works on the STS or the LTM
equally and it's about the
distribution of memory work across
a period of time
Retrieval
to retrieve a word from
memory makes it more likely
to recall it later
Repetition
repeated rehearsal of the
data while it's still on the
WM
It's sort of a filing system that has an
unlimited capacity to store information and
that can be made permanent over time