Vocabulary Acquisition: Evidence-Based Strategies for Optimal Learning Outcomes
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- "Enhancing Vocabulary Acquisition and Retention: Evidence-Based Strategies for Optimal Learning Outcomes"
Introduction (45 seconds): Greetings, viewers. In this video, we will delve into the intricacies of vocabulary acquisition and explore evidence-based strategies to optimize the retention of newly acquired lexical items.
Many individuals find it challenging to maintain newly learned vocabulary in their long-term memory, leading to frustration and hindered progress. This video will elucidate five empirically validated techniques that can significantly enhance your ability to internalize and retain new vocabulary. Let us commence our exploration of these strategies.
Strategy 1: Mnemonic Devices (1 minute 30 seconds) Mnemonic devices are cognitive strategies that facilitate the association of novel information with pre-existing knowledge structures. For instance, when attempting to learn the word "gregarious," which denotes an individual who is sociable and outgoing, one might create a vivid mental image of a friendly lion named Greg engaging in social interactions at a gathering. The more unconventional and memorable the mnemonic, the higher the likelihood of successful recall. Employ mnemonic devices for challenging vocabulary items, and you will likely observe a marked improvement in your ability to retrieve them from memory at a later time.
Strategy 2: Contextual Integration (1 minute 30 seconds) To truly grasp the nuances of novel vocabulary, it is essential to comprehend how these words are employed in authentic contexts. Rather than simply memorizing decontextualized definitions, endeavor to integrate new words into meaningful sentences or narratives. For example, when learning the word "candid," one might construct a sentence such as, "During the interview, the celebrity provided a candid response regarding their personal life." By creating rich, contextual associations, you will cultivate a more profound understanding of the word's usage and connotations.
Strategy 3: Spaced Repetition (1 minute 30 seconds) Spaced repetition is a learning paradigm that entails reviewing information at progressively increasing intervals. Upon encountering a novel word, revisit it later that day, then again after several days, and finally, after a week has elapsed. By distributing your review sessions across time, you will reinforce the memory trace and facilitate long-term retention. Numerous spaced repetition applications and flashcard systems are readily available to assist you in implementing this strategy effectively.
Strategy 4: Multisensory Engagement (1 minute 30 seconds) Empirical evidence suggests that engaging multiple sensory modalities can significantly enhance memory retention. When acquiring new vocabulary, endeavor to involve as many senses as possible. Transcribe the words, articulate them audibly, and even attempt to associate them with a distinctive olfactory or gustatory stimulus. For example, when learning the word "aroma," one might light a scented candle during the study session. By engaging multiple sensory pathways, you will foster more robust neural connections and improve your capacity for subsequent recall.
Strategy 5: Peer Instruction (1 minute 30 seconds) One of the most effective methods to consolidate your understanding of novel vocabulary is to engage in peer instruction. When you explicate a word to another individual, you are compelled to clarify your own comprehension and articulate the concept in your own words. Endeavor to teach new vocabulary to a study partner, family member, or even a domestic animal companion. By sharing your knowledge, you will reinforce your own learning and contribute to the lexical development of others.
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Metatron, I have a question: How can I improve my accent and achieve proper pronunciation when speaking English? Your English is excellent, so I believe you might have some insights on this matter. I apologize if this question seems dumb, but people consistently mistake me for being Russian when I speak English, despite not being Russian myself 😭. It would mean a lot to me if you could provide some guidance on this issue. By the way, if you're reading this, I hope you have a wonderful day.
A trick I like is I prick myself or bite my tongue when I want to make sure I remember something.
it's a trick I picked up from my father as they memory seems to be good at recalling pain or discomfort.
if your brain is naturally going fvck you over then you might as well harness that innate fvckery to it.
It might seem odd but bite seperate portion of your tongue or cause pain on seperate spots of your skin then your brain links memory to it.
@@arnijulian6241Very interesting. Did you know that our very best memory is that of smell? Perhaps that is related?
@@CrispyCircuits While I'd imagine tactile is more closely related to pain receptors then smell but our memories are perceived through the senses I suppose.
The eyes do somewhat lie as they can be tricked.
Human skin on your palms & other sensitive regions can detect 1-2 micrometre variation which is 0.001mm to 0.002 mm.
Receptive field range for vibration, pressure & other stimuli is about 5mm to 10mm for the same regions.
The rest of your skin is about a 5th of the figures mentioned.
light that our eyes perceive can be tricked 7 the same is true of the olfactory system-smell but tactile-touch is a lot more difficult to confuse for it is very precise.
I worked so much with metal as a Engineer till my failed health that I can tell the alloys by touch.
I trust my finger tips sooner then my eyes or nose but somethings you shouldn't touch ah?;)
Yell them at complete strangers. That way, you'll remember them every time you have a cringe flashback.
Would it be better or worse if they understood you? Lol
Hahaha! They'll think you have tourettes or are crazy, but it'll get the job done!
That's just too broken, lol.
based INFP comment
Omgosh I wish I didn’t get that joke so well 😂😂😂
Great video. I still remember the pictures we used in class to learn hiragana 20 years ago: 'ko' was the pot used in "cocinar", 'mu' was a muslim in prayer, "ma" was the arm of a runner ("maratón") and 'ri' was a "río". And in german class we used the peer instruction and I really appreciated my teachers for doing so. I, myself, am a language teacher (Spanish) and isntruct my students in these methods, although as a student I tried many times the flash cards with no success 😅
As someone with ADHD, my short term memory is terrible as I get so distracted so easily. When studying Japanese, I just had to be patient with myself that I would eventually get a word even if they seemed to not stick immediately. Mnemonics were extremely useful for me when dealing with words that are very similar to each other or didn't have kanji to help tie meaning to visually.
Without wanting to sound patronising, that is a remarkable use of very difficult second-language vocabulary. Rather impressive.....
His first language is Italian, so a lot of the advanced words used here are either the same as or more common than they are in English (most high vocabulary in English has Greco-Latin roots and therefore has a received or borrowed equivalent in most Romance languages). With that said, he does have an impressive command of the language, way better than any of mine.
I’ve found in my journey of learning Spanish that the best way to get words stuck into your long term memory and to understand how use the word is to repeatably hear or read them in context multiple times. Also you pick up some words faster than others depending on how well you have understood it’s usages in context.
I found spaced repetition can speed up the process of getting it stuck into your long term memory only after seeing the word used in context a few times.
Mr. Metatron, sir. Do you realize how awesome your content is? I mean, I am Russian from Russia, and I am a busy man with the whole war thing (yes, I am military), but when I see a notification from Metatron channel - I click the living hell outta it.
Much love and best regards.
Least Based Russianman
Good luck out there brother
Respect for training and dedication.
I am an American and always pray for safety of all military forces.
The way the world is going I suspect wars will rear the ugly devastation all around the world.
I pray for my savior to return and establish his reign for 1000yrs.
But first there will be endless conflict and many events that will test people to remain steadfast in faith. Yes I am referring specifically to Jesus and His return.
We all have internal morals and a compass to do what is right and know when we are doing wrong.
Be safe , love your family, treat others how you want to be treated. These were my biological father’s guide to life
✌🏼☺️💭♥️🏠🌄🌟🌊🌾🪴👍🏼
Be safe out there. I want to learn Russian, but I have had so many obstacles these past couple of years.
Sadly, a loved one passed away Sunday. That will be changing everything for me. Some of the old problems are now gone, and now new problems will happen. Hopefully, I will find more success with language learning.
Good luck, and be safe out there! Слава России! 🍀🇷🇺
"Be Like Water my Friend " -Bruce Lee
Exactly 😅.
Mnemonic devices never work for me; I always seem to remember I devised one but can't remember what it is. Sigh. But teaching, tutoring others helps. And the repeat and then an hour or two later repeat again and etc. is something I will work to use more. Thank you.
I really struggle with languages, however, I've found singing well known songs in other languages helps me retain something.
This is very consistent with what I learned when working on my BS in adult education. Well done.
I am very happy you are doing this, I am sure we will gain much from what you teach!!!!!
Thank You very much for this new video ! 😊
Sabbat chased you in here, cammy?
Thank you very much, most appreciated.
Another great video.
This one was really helpful.
🖖🏼
Liked
I can’t honestly say I enjoyed this video but I do want more.
Not relevant to you are something else?
It was relevant. It’s very useful information that’s why I said I want more. It’s just not nearly as interesting as the historical videos
Another tip/trick I use that I slowly came up with myself because it interests me, is to learn the etymology behind the word, and to understand the different components of a word separately. It's extra work upfront but it pays off later when adding new vocabulary, because the groundwork has been laid. In mandarin Chinese, I learned all the radicals and building combinations within characters. And for Russian it means breaking down the words. For example, a (tourist) attraction is достопримечательность. Достой = worthy , примечатель = Remarkable (thing), -ность = -ness. So it would roughly translate into "Worthtakingnoteness". Often literally translating on purpose leads to funny situations which in itself created helpful mnemonics for me, in addition to granting insight into a vocabulary on a meta level.
On another note, I found AI tools like Chat GPT to be quite useful, since it can write short stories or sentences with context with a tailored vocabulary for me to learn from. It can also make vocabulary lists.
Also, thank you for this wonderful video! Very clear and informative and hits all the right notes for a language addict like me.
Very cool, I subbed. Can't wait to learn
Do you think that the sensory part is why we tend to remember food words easier than say, the word for a building, a hill, or road?
nice IBM in the background picture :) You use the metods not only by languiges.
I wish you were around when I was trying to learn Korean in the mid 2000s.
I really liked this video, and I'll definitely try some of these techniques. Does anyone have a tip/trick on how to memorize the definite article in German and French/Spanish that goes along with the word? For some reason, I struggle with it a lot and generally tend to retain the word, but not its article.
Metatron,
could you make a video about how to pray in Classical Latin instead of Ecclesiastical?
eg. Pater Noster, and Ave Maria at least,
that would be very interesting. Thank you.
I'm like, when I don't know a word, I look it up, because I want to know, which helps remembering. So that's me, lol.
What do you think of the language learning method suggested by the youtuber Goken?
His idea was that because English sub anime watchers do pick up certain words Japanese words such as 'kawaii' or 'subarashii' overtime because of the often clear connection between the Japanese audio and the English translation of the word in the subtitles, that if words in English subtitles were in Japanese grammar connected with Japanese particles the viewer would pick up more.
I know that native language subtitles have been shown to not help with acquisition of a target language, but I would be curious to know your thoughts on hybrid language subtitles as an idea.
I got it
Would you mind doing a video on helping children learn another language?
😂 curses upon you!
Bruce Lee will now haunt me with that sound … and the word associated with it.
Kso!
Please make a video to approve Chinese character learn :D
Check out Mandarin Blueprint.
I love "aluminum" in Japanese. Cain't fergit it. (Chuckle)
I learned 亀頭 after seeing it no more than once, but I've yet to have it happen for any other word.
Thanks for the video and the memorisation tips, メタトロン先生. I'm studying slowly Japanese around 30-45 minutes per day. Complicated, but fascinating.
I'm currently using a book, "Le japonais", by Catherine Garnier and Mori Toshiko, "Assimil, Collection sans peine". I'm also utilise a website, called Wanikani, in the purpose of memorizing kanji, and new vocabulary too. The site has the spaced repetition method. There is also this CZcams channel, "Kaname Naito", that I'm following. Nice, funny and interesting channel. What do you think of it, メタトロン先生, as you're an expert in Japanese.
Have a good day, and thanks for doing a video on this channel, 先生。いってらっしゃい。お大事に。がんばって。
Kaname Naito's channel just popped up out of nowhere and has such great lessons.
Would be interesting your thoughts on mnemonics, using your native language or using the target language.
An unfortunate byproduct of using the target language is that you use smaller words you know already to help remember bigger words
Unfortunate because you end up telling old man jokes, dad jokes, puns in that foreign language.
Example. Native to native mnemonics
Heavy white
Omoi shiroi
Omoshiroi
Native to Target. Why do Japanese think their bed is a god? A Mattress. Amaterisu
For some stupid reason, I remember the German word for pencil from high school. Mid '70s. Der bleisctif. Or is it das?
Elephants dont even eat rice..
When duolingo told me i was 5% fluent in spanish i knew something was wrong.
Sorry to bother you, I have a couple of questions.
First question: I think you suggested, when the student has a quite good level on a language, he should go to the target country, Japan for me, for a period of time, which was around a year. But if the student don't have enough ressources for this period of time, will shorter period of times still work, like 6 months, 3 months, 2 months, or even one month?
Second question: A VTuber, 桃鈴ねね、is sometimes called ねねち。Is the ち like さん、ちゃん、くん、先生, etc, or is it just her own creation?
Again, I apologise for annoying you, with another of my stupid and sometimes rather long comments.
Have a good week-end. Good tidings to you, your family, yours friends and your colleagues. The same to Noble ones, and everybody who checks your channel, your videos and the comment section. God protect and bless you all. Cheers.
2:10 Uhm, wata sounds like water.
You should try to understand Haitian Creole
Just immerse bro
ANd I foolishly memorized 'wataru' by imagining someone crossing over water. Silly me.
So did I. What fools we are, going the obvious route. 😅
Why remember words in the first place?
Because the vast majority of words in a language are USELESS.
Most words in a dictionary are so obscure that not even native speakers know them.
You may need to know those words in order to understand books or films.
But most probably you are never going to use those words in real life.
You need a large vocabulary for input like reading or listening native media.
But you need a very small vocabulary for output like speaking or writing.
Nobody will understand you if you use words that are too difficult.
So when speaking or writing you should use easier words.
So the input vocabulary is large, but the output vocabulary is very small.
But you don't need to remember your input vocabulary, you just need to know and recognize when you see them.
For example in order to understand a certain text I may need to know the meaning of the word "mynah".
But I don't need to memorize or remember such a word, because I will probably never use it for speaking or writing.
My personal experience with german as a second language is that learning maybe 100 words through SRS was helpful, but then graded readers are really what did it for me to get me to my current lower intermediate level. For the most common (id guess) 8,000 words, casually reading and listening has been extremely effective, while intentional study just put me to sleep. I will give that at this point, i have passed the threshold where new words aren’t constantly entering my long term memory like they used to, and most new words i see in the novels im reading are one offs (sometimes only appearing a few times in the whole book) and while i will eventually acquire these words if i read enough, i am going to experiment with SRS to see if i can speed up this process and make the novels more enjoyable in the mean time. so yeah in my experience reading is the best because flashcards are boring as shit, but flashcards probably have a place, ill find out.
Vocabulary is the hardest thing for me. I’m great with conceptual things so I learn how a language works really easily, but I’m not great with exact memorization making it hard to remember words.