Cognition, Memory Types, Functions, and Language Learning Strategies
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2016-03-07
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University of Eloued جامعة الوادي
Abstract
What does the mind consist of and how does it function? Does the mind lead our
learning process towards perfection? Cognitive psychologists attempt to structure
the organisation of our mind into cognitive levels, mental processes, and memory
types purposefully, not for the sake of distinction but for the sake of
comprehensiveness, in order to help us understand how our mind functions. Thus,
this paper attempts to answer the above stated questions and provide an overview
of the major concerns of information processing in cognitive theory in order to
demonstrate that short term, long term, dynamic, active, working memory and
episodic, semantic tacit memory types are not distinctive parts but correlative
interdependent mental processes that come into play when we are performing our
daily learning strategies. Remembering our ‗first day at school‘, recalling when
one learns the meaning of ‗honesty‘ or how one ‗takes notes in a lecture‘ without
paying attention to spelling and handwriting are all examples of complex mental
processes and tasks that are generated by memory types. Exploiting these mental
processes and memory types in pedagogical settings provides teachers with
strategy based instruction techniques and learners with language learning
strategies.
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THE SECOND NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE, MIND AND LEARNER'S COGNITIVE CAPACITIES March, 7th/8th 2016 University of Eloued
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Cognition, Memory Types, Functions, Language Learning Strategies