Day 34

Reading Aloud Helps Memory, But Not Comprehension

https://eikaiwa.dmm.com/app/daily-news/article/reading-aloud-helps-memory-but-not-comprehension/misF7t_fEe6tYz89ClN_mw

Vocabulary

• recall

• comprehension

• experiment

Questions

1. They did 4 experiments in which participants were given passages to read.

2. After reading each passage, participants were given multiple choice questions to answer. Some of these tested their memory, and some tested their comprehension of the passage.

3. No, reading aloud did not help participants understand the passages better.

Discussion

1. I didn’t know about this. I thought that reading aloud helped my comprehension / would help my comprehension. I have been wasting all my time.

2. Yes, when I was a university student I memorized all the northern mythology for the philosophy test. Although I forgot all of them.

3. A good method for me was to study on the train. I used to memorize things on the way to school and check them on the way back home.

4. I make memorization sheets to help me. For example I write the words I have to memorize with an orange pen, then I try to guess them while covering them with a red sheet.

5. Yes, my mother is very forgetful. When I ask her to buy something for me she absolutely forgets it.

Further Discussion

1. Yes I really didn’t understand the electromagnetism text. 

2. No, I hated tests because I was not smart. Even now I dream that I failed my college credits.

3. I put the most effort into programming class. Even on holidays I solved assignments.

4. My university friends were the smartest and second smartest in our grade and they were always teaching me how to study.

5. I’m not sure what he is talking about, but reading and exercising are good things.