Abstract: German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, the first person studied a memory, experimentally publishes his forgetting curve, which characterized the ability of a human brain to remember the information. He proved experimentally that during the first hour of learning process 60 percent of information is forgotten and after 10 hours of workload our memory abandons 35 percent of information. Then forgetting process become slower and after six days our memory abandons near 20 percent of the learning material. As a result of the research Hermann Ebbinghaus has suggested the algorithm of the effective learning. Based on the modification of the algorithm we have created a special service for learning foreign words called WordSteps?. It allows to learn more than 97 percent of new information even in a year after the first training.

Keywords: Memory, natural language processing, learning words

ACM Classification Keywords: I.2.7 Natural Language Processing

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THE EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY FOR LEARNING FOREIGN WORDS

Andrey Dukhovny

http://foibg.com/ibs_isc/ibs-27/ibs-27-p18.pdf