Language classrooms often utilize various memory techniques to help students remember a new word. Sometimes teachers give a rhyme, play on words, or short catchy sayings to help students remember word meanings or grammar rules. Often teachers will include pictures to help students visualize the word and activate their brain’s sensory cortex which aids in […]

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