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 Methods to improve
the short-term memory
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 Content
1 2 3
Attention Expanding
Shadowing
listen for key the
capacity to
recall
4 5
Visualization Segmentation
 Content
6 7 8
Recognizin Remembering How to
g messages you improve
incoherent
or disagree with memory for
ambiguous or find easy
messages offensive interpretation
 Shadowing
Meaning
Shadowing is an
advanced language learning
technique, which learners can use
Function independently to improve their
It is very good for memory intonation and pronunciation.
development since it forces the
interpreter to store and recall small
groups of sounds, words, and chunks of How to practise
information in a relatively short period
of time. - Find an audio
 Shadowing
Function
It is very good for memory
development since it forces the
interpreter to store and recall small
groups of sounds, words, and chunks of
information in a relatively short period
of time.
Meaning
Shadowing is an
advanced language learning
technique, which learners can use
independently to improve their
intonation and pronunciation.
How to practise
- Find an audio
- Listen to the audio first. 
- Shadow the audio with a transcript. 
- Shadow without a transcript. 
 Attention listen for key
Meaning
A technique for listening to
understand the fastest content
Function during translation and also in tests

This is a strategy in English to help

listeners summarize the main ideas in
everyday communication or conversation How to practise
- Ex: In a test key
- Important willare
words usually
oftenbe said
at aemphasized
slow speed in when
the the
songword is about
or raised
to appear
the toneorof
it will be emphasized
important passages in
the sentence very clearly to recognize.
 Expanding the capacity to recall
How to find out when forgetting information

Try to find out what prevented the memory of

the information stored and retrieved, the
source language and the target language.

Limit each person's memory

Your short-term memory (STM) capacity is

normally limited to between 5 -9 bits of
information
 Expanding the capacity to recall
Increase analytical skills

By reading a newspaper or magazine

or document and try to summarize
what you read in a single sentence in
the languages you know.

Summarize

Summarize the main points of news

reports or radio talk shows or programs
 Expanding the capacity to recall
Collect
Collect articles or magazines for you to use
in the exercises below, or record talks or
interviews from radio or television.

Limit

Limit the use of non-technical materials,

Record increasingly lengthy texts as your
skills improve.
 Expanding the capacity to recall
How to practise
A, Listen to the passage without taking notes and try to repeat as much
as possible.
B, Listen to the passage and write down "key words" to help you
remember the content.
C. Listen to the passage and try to repeat it verbatim with or without
notes.
D. - Try to summarize the passage into a few meaningful units.
Organize information into groups
E. Do not allow your opinion to color the speaker's expression.
 Visualization
Meaning
A method that uses images,
videos, maps and experiments to
Features help remember knowledge,
information.
- -Mnemonics (methods of associating
Images remain in our minds
information
much longerwith real-life
than abstractimages) suggest
one uses visualization to retain different
information. How to practise
types of information by creating mental
images.
Any
oral descriptive
recall or byor
drawing
narrative
thetexts
may
images
be in
used
involved.
and you may record
the text,
or you may ask a colleague to read
 Segmentation
Meaning

It is easier to retain
Segmentation a number
involves of a
breaking
limited chunks
larger chunk ofwith information
information into that
two
Example just one or
or more two larger
smaller ones. dense chunks.

The 10-digit phone number

0905215379 is often divided into
How to practise
a triplet: 090-521-5379
It You
can be performed
should be ableused boththeoral
to read
and written
sentence texts
only andsegment
once, the it.
segmentation can also be both oral
and written.
 Recognizing incoherent or ambiguous messages
Purpose
It helps you recognize incoherence
or ambiguity in a speech  a way
Example to recall the speech.

“Jane asked Miguel to sit still.

Then, he got angry.”
How to practise
You should collect any examples
of ambiguous or incoherent
sentences or passages you might
come across.
 Remembering messages you disagree with or find offensive.

Meaning
Confirmation bias describes the
tendency to favor information that
Advantag confirms one’s personal belief or
e hypothesis.
- Interpret evidence in a neutral manner
or recall that information selectively.
How to practise
- It called: “selective recall”,
“confirmatory memory”, or “access- You need to put yourself in the
biased memory’. speaker’s place and start by
summarizing a controversial text and
move on to the freer shadowing.
 How to improve memory for easy interpretation
Hear the future before it happens

+ One way interpreters go about this is by making it a habit to guess

what a speaker is going to say next.
+ Exercises in which you anticipate words might be the key to
increasing your flexibility. This skill is the cloze test

Example David wants to a table for 5

tonight.
Answers:
- David wants to book a table for 5 tonight.
- David wants to reserve a table for 5 tonight.
 How to improve memory for easy interpretation
Flexibility
How These 4 Improvisation Techniques Help Conference
Interpreters Remember Translations:

- First of all, if you don’t know a word, just try to find a

description with words you do know.
- Second, you could also just use something opposite.

- Third, use a more general or more specific word.

- You don't have to translate each word itself, you can omit
unnecessary words
 How to improve memory for easy interpretation
Flexibility

How interpreter use their memory to understand words they

have never even heard before

By using two things: context, and their memory.

It’s possible, if you’ve already built a strong memory connection in
your mother tongue between the meaning of this word and some
other words in the sentence.
 How to improve memory for easy interpretation
Flexibility

Why Conference Interpreters memorize everything they read

or hear, and how that makes them more fluent

-> a broad general knowledge.

 How to improve memory for easy interpretation
Hear the future before it happens

+ One way interpreters go about this is by making it a habit to guess

what a speaker is going to say next.
+ Exercises in which you anticipate words might be the key to
increasing your flexibility. This skill is the cloze test.

Example David wants to a table for 5

tonight.
Answers:
- David wants to book a table for 5 tonight.
- David wants to reserve a table for 5 tonight.
 References
https://horizonedu.vn/en/news-events/7-exercises-to-improve-sh
ort-term-memory-while-interpreting/
https://www.magneticmemorymethod.com/conference-interpreti
ng/
https://www.nccourts.gov/assets/inline-files/05_Memorization_
Techniques_for_Consecutive_Interpreting.pdf?VersionId=VwlE
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