According of an interview that I made to my roommate’s
girlfriend, who has taken a psychology course last semester, and some
researches that I did in internet. Nowadays more students prefer to memorize
large amounts of information in a short time, which is well-known as cramming.
Most of them said that it can help you in the moment with a test. However many professors
are worried about this, because they say that it results in short term
retention of what students have studied. In fact, Harold Edward Gorst in his book
The curse of education said: “as long as education is synonymous with cramming
on an organized plan, it will continue to produce mediocrity”.
A young boy does some last minute
cramming while walking to school with his sister
On the other hand, memorization which is the way to use one
or more mental process techniques in the way to learn something. According to
The dictionary Merriam-Webster, memorization is to learn something so well that you are
able to remember it perfectly. To memorize something you can apply one or more memorization
techniques. The most common techniques are: Rote learning, a mnemonic, a mnemonic
link system, a peg system, the major system, the method of loci, the art of
memory. When you apply all of this techniques, those help you not just in the
way you prepare for an exam, also in the way you understand and learn. However,
memorization takes you more time studying than cramming.
So what will we do now that we know this??
Research shows that the best way to remember something is to summarize it to yourself, self-testing, and teaching it to someone else. Good ideas to remember for learning English!
ReplyDeleteThat is true. Especially I like to teaching it. when I teach about one topic, I am learn it more. I had that good experience.
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