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Use the learning strategy “associating strategies” in order to improve reading comprehension process.

Here you can find some important reading skills, which are very valuable for improving your reading process. Do you know some of them? Tell us.

Read carefully about the strategy

Associating strategy

The strategy consist on stablish relation with words in Spanish and English, they are called cognates, this is very important because you can identify words and probably to have a general idea about the reading.

“This memory strategy involves associating new language information with familiar concepts already in memory” (1, p. 60). I have used tricks like this for myself for years, like the "I'm a genie” trick to remember how to spell imagine (im-a-gin-e) and corazón (Spanish for heart) is the core of a person. "The associations can be simple or complex, mundane or strange, but they must be meaningful to the learner" (1, p. 41).

Oxford, R. (2008) Language Learning Strategies: What every teacher should know. USA: Heinle & Heinle Publishers.

ASSOCIATING
Word in English	Word in Spanish
family	familia
Computer	Computador

Read carefully the exercise in order to solve the points that were proposed.

EXERCISES

Read carefully and solve the evaluation exercise and the evidence

EVALUATION AND EVIDENCE

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