memory strategies and phonological
awareness
What do we know about memory?
Memory
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What do we need
memory for in language learning?
Meanings of new words.
How to use these new words. How to spell these new words.
Listen to these 15 words that you are going to learn today.
Memory:
baseline measurement
Now look at the 15 words
Notice anything familiar about any of them?
rabarber
paron
purjolok
kronartskocka
sallad
korsbar
hallon
druva
litchi
blabar
kal
spenat
spams
rova
rotselleri
Now look again:
Do they make more sense now?
rhubarb    rabarber      pear páron leek
artichoke kronártskocka lettuce sallad cherry
raspberry     hallon grape druva lychee
blueberry     blábár cabbage kál spinach
asparagus    sparris     turnip      rova celeriac
1. Memory pictures
2. Mnemonics
3. Chunking
......and some games
1. Memory Pictures
Memory pictures
Think about the words that are new to you. Do they sound like any words in your language?
Now try to create a mental image that links each new word to the word in your language.
Draw yourself a picture of these images (doesn't matter how awful they are!).
Your own memory picture
2. Mnemonic
Big elephants can always upset smaller elej^^^;
Big elephants can always
Mnemonics
Look at the spellings of the words you want to focus on.
Highlight anything that is odd in any of the words.
Choose 1 and make up a little mnemonic to help you remember the spelling - particularly the odd bits!
Share them with your neighbours.
3. Chunking
Arrange them in groups according to any characteristic that seems sensible to you.
Give each group a name.
How many groups are there? How many in each group?
...and some games
I've just got one thing to say...
My aunt...
Don't answer that...
Pelmanism
Kim's game
Scrambled words
Word shapes
Use the mini-flash cards to check how many of the items you can name.
Look at the English word first and see if you can find your word for it. Then look at the picture and see if you can name it in English.
Memory pictures
Look back at your memory pictures
Remind yourself of your mnemonics
...and your chunks
follow-up measurement
Write down the 15 words in Swedish
This is what we were
aiming for:
rabarber
paron
purjolok
kronartskocka
sallad
korsbar
hallon
druva
litchi
blabar
kal
spenat
spams
rova
rotselleri
Memory:
follow-up measurement
Developing phonological
awareness
English Sounds -phonemk symbols and examples
■ i:	i	u	u:	19			ei				
he	it	put	do	ear			day				
e		3:	d:	ue			di				
ten	brother	her	for	you're			boy			go	
32	A	a:	D	ee			ai			au	
and	but	are	of	the			my			nov	
P pjease	b .but	t to	d did	tf child		□3 June		k come			g get
f	v	6	5	s	z				j		3
from	very	think	the	see	zoo				she		television
m	n	n	h	I	r				w		■ J
nan	name	ring	him	live	really				A/e		you
B HTwretf 2DL3
Phoneme cards
Phoneme reveal pile1
Picture reveal pile'
Picture cards
My name is Benny
My name is Benny / Penny (intermediate)
Eye Spy (with my little eye)
"...something ending with /t/"
"...something that has three syllables"
"...something that has a silent letter in it"
M  N /a/
cat
act
What do you mean?
yes
no
Phonol
areness
do it often!
Thanks
for your attention this week.
Keep in tOUCh!       Anne Margaret Smith
ams@ELTwell.co.uk