Картината на Ван Гог „Спалня в Арл“ като дворец на паметта
Van Gog’s Bedroom in Arles as a Memory Palace

Author(s): Yordanka Velkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Education, Foreign languages learning, School education, Adult Education, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Национално издателство за образование и наука „Аз-буки“
Keywords: mnemonics; memory palace; method of loci; Bulgarian as a foreign/second language; visualization; spatial memory
Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses the role of mnemonic techniques and visual art in teaching Bulgarian as a foreign language. I present mnemonic techniques that can facilitate the three fundamental stages of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval of, in our case, new lexical and grammatical information. These techniques are based on associations and correlations between familiar objects from Van Gogh's painting Bedroom in Arles and grammar rules in Bulgarian. Van Gogh's painting is seen as a visual illustration of the ancient Greek mnemonic model, known as Memory Palace, used to enhance both the coding and recovery of new information.

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