To Crowder memory plays a palpable role in language development and
vocabulary acquisition/ learning, "memory is a set of dynamic mechanisms that are
associated with the retention of what we need and the retrieval of information about what happened to us in the past". In other words, we recall only the salient
information we need and which help us bridge appropriately a problem gap. But the
other elements remain stored in our memory until we need to retrieve them. The
brain stores; words, sentences, pictures and whatever information into cerebral
electric waves, then stores them, and recalls them whenever needed. The brain also
generates responses to a question being asked to answering a particular test
question. The brain retains, classifies and maps semantically vocabularies according
to the student’s familiarity with a word. And the recognition of lexis with which the
learner is familiar and which he recognizes relying primarily upon his retention
strategies such as spelling strategy which enables the learner to acquire/ learn a
titanic of vocabularies which are stored in the learner’s mind and retrieved when he is
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