21st Century Learning and Teaching

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ESL gap fill quiz for English language learners & kids on the Christmas song All I Want for Christmas is You by NOTA, to practise listening skills and build your English vocabulary for talking about the Christmas Holiday season.

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This phenomenon — testing yourself on an idea or concept to help you remember it — is called the “testing effect” or “retrieval practice.” People have known about the idea for centuries. Sir Francis Bacon mentioned it, as did the psychologist William James. In 350 BCE, Aristotle wrote that “exercise in repeatedly recalling a thing strengthens the memory.”

But the testing effect had been mostly overlooked in recent years. “What psychologists interested in learning and memory have always emphasized is the acquisition part. The taking [information] in and getting it into memory,” Roediger said.

Laypeople — and even experts — tend to think of human memory as a box to be packed with information.

“Memory is dynamic, and it keeps changing,” McDaniel said. “And retrieval helps it change.”

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English Listening activity for Elementary English language students and young learners at all levels of English. Watch the video and then use the words in the word box to complete the gaps in the lyrics.