1. Keyword Method Show students how mnemonic devises can be applied to their learning

2. MemoryChapter 8

3. Mnemonics Imagery is at the heart of many memory aids. Mnemonic techniques use vivid imagery and organizational devices in aiding memory.

4. Activity • The keyword method • You think of a word that sounds like all or part of the word to be remembered. • Then you create a scenario involving the associated word and the definition of the word-to-be-remembered. • The keyword method has often been applied to foreign vocabulary learning. • In learning Spanish words, for example, pato might first be recoded as an acoustically similar keyword, pot. • Then pot is linked to the word’s meaning, duck, by means of an interactive mental image involving a duck with a pot on its head.

7. Activity • Use the keyword method to learn concepts from this chapter