Brain-Friendly Learning Tips for Long-Term Retention and Recall - Academia.edu

TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED Dr. Jeffrey G Mehring King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, English Language Department, Faculty Member Brain-Friendly Learning Tips for Long-Term Retention and Recall The main study skills students presently rely on are massed practice, repetition, rereading, and highlighting which cause a false sense of fluency (Bjork, R. & Bjork, E., 1992). Memory has two strengths, storage strength and retrieval strength with the theory of desirable difficulty stating the harder one has to work to retrieve a memory, the greater the subsequent spike in retrieval and storage strength (Bjork, R. & Bjork, E., 1992; Hattie, 2013). Spaced-repetition, pretesting, interleaving, and regular testing are a few study skills which can lead to deeper learning. Incorporating... Download Bookmark Dr. Jeffrey G Mehring King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, English Language Department, Faculty Member Better Vocabulary Study Strategies for Long-term Learning Presently, the main study skills many Japanese EFL students rely on are massed practice, repetition, and writing when it comes to vocabulary acquisition. McCarthy (as cited in Gu, 2003) stated, "the purpose of vocabulary learning should include both remembering words and the ability to use them automatically in a wide range of language contexts when the need arises." The theory of desirable difficulty (Bjork and Bjork, 1992) states that the harder one has to work to retrieve a memory, the greater the subsequent spike in retrieval and storage strength. Spaced-repetition and interleaving are... Download Bookmark Ankit Jain SPPU University, Pune, India, Animation, Faculty Member CHALLENGES AND ISSUES OF EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF ANIMATION AND VFX IN INDIA : A STUDY Animation and VFX is one of the booming and fast growing industries in India at present. Animation and VFX requires a specific skill set by an aspirant. These specific skills are not catered by the traditio nal education as they require additional learning and practicing. In fact Private educational institutes capitalized the opportunity and introduced various certificate and diploma courses in order to fill the skill set gap. After identifying and realizing the need of authenticated certification, leading Universities have taken adequate efforts to introduce degree courses with enhanced... Download Bookmark Academia, 580 California St., Suite 400, San Francisco, CA, 94104 Unsubscribe   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service   © 2019 Academia