Teachers’ and Students’ Attitudes towards the role of selective text highlighting in remembering of information
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2018
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University of Oum El Bouaghi
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The loss or the inability to retrieve information from memory is considered as a common problem in the learning activity. Students who face this problem of forgetting, they tend to use different study techniques to overcome this difficulty, and to improve their retention of information; among these techniques students adopt selective text highlighting which is one of the common technique that helps students to achieve their academic goals in EFL classrooms. It increases their ability to memorize and remember the important information. This study investigates EFL teachers' and learners' attitudes towards the role of selective text highlighting in improving the remembering of information. To obtain the desired results, two main questionnaires were designed. The first one was given to sixteen teachers at the Department of English at Larbi Ben M'hidi University. The second one was administered to second-year Master at the same department. On the one hand the results of the teacher's questionnaire reveal that selective highlighting is helpful technique for improving remembering. On the other hand, the analysis of student's questionnaire shows that there is a positive effect behind adopting the technique of selective highlighting. On the basis of these findings, students should give more attention to selective text highlighting in remembering of information and teachers should encourage their students to develop research on the usefulness of this technique.
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Selective text highlighting, Memory process