Mnemonic Techniques in the Study of Foreign Languages and Historical Disciplines

Abstract

The article is devoted to the use of certain mnemotechnical methods in the educational process in higher education when teaching foreign languages and historical disciplines. Our attention is focused on studying the types and features of memory, the importance of strong memory. Under mnemotechnical methods the authors understand a set of techniques that increase the amount of memory and make it easier to remember information. It is proved that the basis of mnemonic memory is visualization, a kind of figurative note-taking, during which abstract concepts are replaced with those that have a visual, auditory or kinesthetic embodiment in human memory. Personal experience of the authors allows us to conclude that the use of mnemotechnical methods in higher education gives students many advantages. Such methods improve the ability of students to retain a large amount of accurate information in memory, reduce the time when memorizing information, since the process of memorizing information is completely controlled, and fix certain data in long-term memory -what was once recorded in memory is firmly stored for a long time. So, mnemonics is a powerful tool that trains and improves attention and thinking. It allows you to develop creative thinking and motivates students to achieve success and interest in learning a foreign language and historical disciplines, as well as greatly facilitates learning. We are confident that the interest in mnemonics is not currently fading. Moreover, types of mnemonic memory techniques are constantly being improved based on new ideas about the mechanisms of human memory. Now phenomenal memory from the category of miracles goes into the category of ordinary, accessible to everyone memory skills that can be formed, like any other skills.Mnemonics has been used for a long time in many areas. From the point of view of psychology, it has long been studied deeply and seriously (along with such psychological concepts as memory, memorization), but in terms of pedagogy, the question of rational use of mnemonics techniques in teaching at university remains relevant. The authors of the article presented their own experience of using various mnemotechnical methods in higher education, namely: making high-quality notes, the method of linking to well-known information, receiving bright events, the Cicero method, the method of "keywords", the method of phonetic associations.