二年级读默写家长义工计划.ppt

Memorising You can then play games such as ‘Memory’ or ‘Snap’ with a partner (or on your own) by matching words to meanings. Memorising Cat Cat Memorising If your children are visual person… Keyword method You may try to use the Keyword method. This method has been found to be very effective with small numbers of words (e.g. a few hundred), even over many years. It is especially useful with concrete words that can be easily visualised (e.g. Sugar) Keyword method You associate the target word in the foreign language with a word that sounds similar in your own language. This is the keyword. Then you form a picture in your mind that combines the keyword and the meaning of the target word. Every time you see the target word, you remember the picture you have formed, and then remember the meaning of the target word. For example: How does it work? a Cantonese-speaker, learning the English word sugar, might think of the Cantonese word syu ga 書架 (the keyword) and picture a bookshelf with a bowl of sugar on it, as in the picture on the right: They would then remember the meaning of ‘sugar’ — i.e. 糖. How does it work? 書架 Sugar Using Create sentences of your own for the words you are learning, relating them to your own situation. Create a story that includes all the words you have learned. Using Watch movies or read books or magazines on particular topics Read books at particular vocabulary levels. You have a high chance of meeting repeated vocabulary in simplified readers. Recycling Learn words repeatedly, with increasing intervals between learning sessions. We all know that if learning is not repeated, we will forget the words we have learned. But research in Psychology shows that we do not forget things gradually. How can we avoid forgetting what we have learned? Instead, as the graph below shows, most of our forgetting occurs within 20 minutes after we have first learned something. More is forgotten within one hour, and still more within 8 hours - but after