{"id":2700,"date":"2017-12-27T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/blog\/?p=2700"},"modified":"2017-12-26T22:02:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T22:02:34","slug":"saying-words-aloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/saying-words-aloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Enhance Memory by Saying Important Words Aloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_106576618_Credit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2703 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/braindevs.net\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_106576618_Credit.jpg\" alt=\"Reading Words Out Loud Enhances Memory\" width=\"792\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_106576618_Credit.jpg 792w, https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/AdobeStock_106576618_Credit-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 792px) 100vw, 792px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d like to remember a list of words better? Here&#8217;s a simple trick:\u00a0<em>say\u00a0them aloud to yourself.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>According to recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/09658211.2017.1383434\" target=\"_blank\">research<\/a> by Forrin and MacLeod, the benefits of\u00a0<em>both<\/em> reading\u00a0<em>and\u00a0<\/em> saying words out loud are greater than\u00a0<em>either\u00a0<\/em>reading\u00a0<em>or<\/em> saying the words.<\/p>\n<p>When going over flashcards of essential chemistry terms &#8212; for example &#8212; students might <em>say<\/em> the definitions as they review them.\u00a0This strategy should help them learn those definitions better.<\/p>\n<h2>Practical limitations of saying words aloud<\/h2>\n<p>As I think about the teaching implications of this research, I don&#8217;t think we should encourage students to read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">everything<\/span> aloud. (Except, of course, students who are learning to read.)<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we should suggest this technique as a study supplement for\u00a0a few key concepts: the definitions or formulas that we most want them to learn.<\/p>\n<p>This strategy takes little time and costs nothing. In other words, it&#8217;s perfect for the world of education.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;d like to remember a list of words better? Here&#8217;s a simple trick: read them out loud to yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[15,23],"class_list":["post-2700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lb-blog","tag-classroom-advice","tag-long-term-memory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2700"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2700\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.braindevs.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}