GENERAL ENGLISH

• Study and Thinking Skill
• Study Skills


  • Organizing
  • Scheduling
  • Managing time
  • Mnemonics
• Concentration


  The ability to direct your thinking
• Memorizing


  The act or process of remembering
• Types of Mnemonics


  • Techniques that can help in memorizing
  • Allows learner to remember information using short retrieval cues
• Chunking


  Breaking up complicated lists into sensible groupings
• Chunking


  • 13 e.g. (484-** ***)
• Acronyms


  Using the first letter from a group of words to form a new word
• Acronyms


  • ROYGBIV (colors of the rainbow)
• Visualization


  Creating pictures on your mind or on paper
• Linking Method


  Linking each items using crazy images
• Peg Method


  Visualizing words literally attached to familiar objects
• Method of Loci


  Uses location to cue memory
• Place Method


  Uses numbers and a poem instead of landmarks
• Chaining


  Create a story where each word or idea you have to remember cues the next idea you need to recall
• Chaining


  • Dear King Philip Came Over for good
• Keywords


  Using sound likes; imagine an image that involves the keyword
• Keywords


  • spagetthi
• Acrostics


  Create sentences from the first letter of every word that needs to be remembered
• Rhymes and Songs


  Create your own songs and rhymes to be remember
• Movement Learning or Hands-on Learning


  The person has to take physical action to remember
• Face Association


  Looking at a person's face closely, but discretely finding a feature to make it stand out in your mind
• Taking notes and Summarizing


  One of the best ways to retain what you have read
• Image-naming


  Creating relationships between the name and the physical characteristics of the person to remember the person's name
• Rhyme-keys


  Using two or more words that if combined rhymes the word you want to remember
• Repetition


  Repeating information to help remember it
• Learning Styles


  • Active vs Reflective
  • Factual vs Theoretical
  • Visual vs Verbal
  • Linear vs Holistic
• Learning Styles (Menoy, 2010)

  • Auditory
  • Visual
  • Tactile
  • Kinesthetic
• Neologism


  • A newly coined word or phrase
  • The process of coining or using of new words
• Coinage


  Using generic terms as part of the whole
• Coinage


  • Colgate - Toothpaste
• Borrowing


  Using of loanwords or taking from another language
• Borrowing


  • Etcetera
• Compounding


  Use of two or more roots to form a word
• Kinds of Compounding


  • Close
  • Open
  • Hyphenated
• Close Compounding


  • bittersweet, countdown
• Open Compounding


  • pushcart vendor, optical art
• Hyphenated Compounding


  • merry-go-round, officer-in-charge
• Types of Clipping


  • Back clipping
  • Fore-clipping
  • Middle clipping
  • Complex clipping
• Clipping


  Shortening/reducing parts of the word