College English Test Band 6: English Vocabulary Memory Palm Treasure

Author: Xiao Ying, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: Learning and memorizing English vocabulary has always been a major challenge for Chinese students, often consuming a lot of time with limited results, becoming a bottleneck in English learning. How to overcome this difficulty is what this series of books aims to explore and address. This book is based on the New College English Vocabulary Outline for the CET-6. It includes approximately 1,200 English words required to be mastered according to the outline. For each word, the book not only indicates the part of speech but also provides phonetic symbols, as mastering the pronunciation of words greatly aids memory and makes it easier for readers to use them. Additionally, following the spirit of the outline, the book is not purely a vocabulary memorization manual but also caters to the needs of reading and writing by providing synonyms and antonyms for each word. It also offers common collocations, such as noun-verb combinations and verb-preposition combinations, forming a new type of English learning book centered on vocabulary while expanding reading and writing skills.
For English vocabulary learning, we have always advocated the approach of studying and memorizing every day. Practice has proven this to be a successful learning method. It allows us to make daily progress, accumulate small gains, and eventually achieve great results. To support and complement this method, we have designed the book with a compact size, making it easy to carry and convenient for readers to open and memorize at any time.
In terms of the book's design, we have adopted a two-color printing method, printing the parts to be memorized in color to create a visual stimulus that reinforces memory. This is an attempt to apply the principles of color psychology to vocabulary memorization. Building on this, we have also introduced the use of colored plastic sheets to assist in memorizing English vocabulary. These sheets can be placed over the memorization items, using the principle of color matching to cover them, thereby achieving the goals of memorization, review, and self-checking. Another advantage of using colored plastic sheets is that they help in self-assessment. Typically, checking whether a word or phrase has been memorized requires the help of others, but with the colored plastic sheets provided in this book, readers can test themselves anytime, anywhere.
Therefore, colored plastic sheets serve multiple learning functions and represent a new method for learning English vocabulary that we have developed through extensive exploration.