Comments on: Six ways of remembering new words http://sixthings.net/2009/02/07/six-ways-of-remembering-new-words/ A Miscellany of English Language Teaching Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:36:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: pixton http://sixthings.net/2009/02/07/six-ways-of-remembering-new-words/#comment-207 pixton Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:39:21 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=236#comment-207 Comics are a great way to engage and motivate students to remember new words. If you're interested in creating comics online, check out <a href="http://pixton.com" rel="nofollow">Pixton.com</a>. You can design every aspect of your character, and move it into any pose you want. All you have to do is click-and-drag to change or reposition any part of it - the creative and artistic possibilities are endless! Try it out and let us know what you think, sign-up is free thanks,
 Clive Creator of <a href="http://pixton.com" rel="nofollow">Pixton - Interactive Web Comics</a> Comics are a great way to engage and motivate students to remember new words. If you’re interested in creating comics online, check out Pixton.com.

You can design every aspect of your character, and move it into any pose you want. All you have to do is click-and-drag to change or reposition any part of it – the creative and artistic possibilities are endless!

Try it out and let us know what you think, sign-up is free

thanks,

Clive
Creator of Pixton – Interactive Web Comics

]]> By: Hall Houston http://sixthings.net/2009/02/07/six-ways-of-remembering-new-words/#comment-206 Hall Houston Tue, 10 Feb 2009 00:57:33 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=236#comment-206 Another comment: #5 is often known as the story method, where you put items you want to remember into a story. I find it works much better with low-level, concrete words (dog, swim, man) than with high-level, abstract words (ambiguity, neurotransmitter, hierarchy). The BBC website has an article on this subject: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A10357706 Another comment: #5 is often known as the story method, where you put items you want to remember into a story. I find it works much better with low-level, concrete words (dog, swim, man) than with high-level, abstract words (ambiguity, neurotransmitter, hierarchy).

The BBC website has an article on this subject:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A10357706

]]> By: Hall Houston http://sixthings.net/2009/02/07/six-ways-of-remembering-new-words/#comment-205 Hall Houston Sun, 08 Feb 2009 00:30:43 +0000 http://sixthings.net/?p=236#comment-205 This is a great post. These are some excellent suggestions. One more suggestion: have a review session with students from time to time, when you go over words that appeared in previous lessons. I wrote an article on memory skills that appeared in Language Magazine and It's for Teachers last year: http://www.geocities.com/allhou/hhmemory.htm This is a great post. These are some excellent suggestions. One more suggestion: have a review session with students from time to time, when you go over words that appeared in previous lessons.

I wrote an article on memory skills that appeared in Language Magazine and It’s for Teachers last year:

http://www.geocities.com/allhou/hhmemory.htm

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