self-learning through memory

The aim of these exercises is to help learners become aware of the memory strategies used by the learners and the techniques best suited to each one.

• Write 12 words on the board from a recent reading or lesson done in class
• Ask the students to learn them in a certain time.
• Observe the strategies used by several students.
• Stop the exercise and talk about the strategies observed. (To occupy short term memory. )
• Get students to write out as many words as they can.
• Ask how many students wrote out 12 correct words then question them individually on howthey did it. If they need prompting discuss how they processed the words, how they established relationships between them, whether they pictured them in their minds and so on.