Classifying or reclassifying language material into meaningful units, Esther mentally or in writing, to make the material easier to remember by reducing the number of discrete elements.

Groups can be made on:

• Type of word (nouns, verbs…)
• Topic (words about weather, sports…)
• Practical function (terms for things that make a car work)
• Linguistic function (apology, request, demand...)
• Similarity (warm, hot, tepid, tropical...)
• Opposition (friendly, unfriendly...)

The power of this strategy may be enhanced by labelling the groups, using acronyms to remember the groups, or using different colours to represent different groups.

LISTENING/ READING/ WRITING/ SPEAKING