Open AccessMnemonics techniques for teaching English lexis
Author(s) -
Marina R. Vanyagina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pedagogika i psihologiâ obrazovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2500-297X
DOI - 10.31862/2500-297x-2019-3-71-85
Subject(s) - mnemonic , lexis , computer science , vocabulary , process (computing) , coding (social sciences) , schematic , foreign language , linguistics , psychology , mathematics education , cognitive psychology , engineering , philosophy , statistics , mathematics , electronic engineering , operating system
The article deals with the efficiency of mnemonics application for studying the English language. Mnemonics is one of active training technologies which rely on lexical and semantic communications and associative thinking. Since ancient times scientists studied properties of memory and offered the ways of simplification the process of storing information by means of various techniques. Modern psychologists and teachers agree that coding of information by means of images and associations accelerates the process of information storing. The article considers various methods of mnemonics helping to perceive and reproduce necessary educational information, including foreign words and phrases: associations, mnemo-rhymes, method of a chain, and mnemo-cards. Examples of mnemonics application in the author's practice of teaching a foreign language when training cadets and post-graduate military students are given. The pedagogical experiment on mnemo-cards application in teaching English the cadets of higher educational military organizations for the intensification of educational process is described. A mnemo-card represents the structured schematic visualization of basic elements of information on the paper or via electronic medium. The word, the name of a part of speech, a transcription, variants of translation, the picture which is associated with a word and a mnemo-rhyme are applied on it. Mnemo-cards are repeatedly shown and pronounced during lessons and self study. As a result of a pedagogical experiment the groups of cadets using mnemo-cards have higher percentage of storing of English-language lexis, that allows to draw a conclusion on expediency and efficiency of the offered technique.