Methods for Teaching EFL Lesson 10 Lecture 2 MIS Embrace Difficulties

1. Embrace
Dif
fi
culties
The importance of e
ff
ort in
practicing
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3. Short-term
impediments
that make
for stronger
learning
have come
to be called
desirable
difficulties.
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4. How
learning
occurs
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5. encoding
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6. This process of converting sensory
perceptions into meaningful representations
in the brain is still not perfectly understood.
We call the process encoding, and we call
the new representations within the brain
memory traces.
(Brown, et al. 2014)

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encoding

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consolidating

9. Prior knowledge is a prerequisite for
making sense of new learning, and
forming those connections is an
important task of consolidation.
(Brown, et al. 2014)

10. Consolidation helps organize and
solidify learning, …
(Brown, et al. 2014)

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retrieval

12. Consolidation helps organize and solidify
learning, and, notably, so does retrieval after a
lapse of some time, because the act of retrieving
a memory from long-term storage can both
strengthen the memory traces and at the same
time make them modifiable again, enabling them,
for example, to connect to more recent learning.
This process is called reconsolidation.
(Brown, et al. 2014)

13. Embrace
Dif
fi
culties
The importance of e
ff
ort in
practicing
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