Now that I have your attention, let me give you some tips on how to increase the likelihood that your students will remember the genders of their words. As language teachers, we know that genders are crucial to speaking and writing in a language, but their importance is...
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Would you believe that my students love encountering difficult words in French? No, they’re not gluttons for punishment…. They’re just excited about getting to use mnemonics, a learning technique that helps information retention or retrieval in the human memory by associating words with images, sounds or stories. Besides...
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