Linking grammar to situations and/or friends

Megan remembers certain grammar forms by associating them with friends who helped her with them:   “…I would ask someone else and they would tell me and I’d remember it from then on because I associated it with a specific person.  So it was different than hearing it all from my Spanish teacher where it all kind of blended together." Megan's strategy also involves remembering the environment where she learned the form.

Similarly, Nicole remembers the passive se by paying attention not only to what was being said by the instructor in class, but also by attending to what was going on around her.  “…I remember who I was sitting by…what the professor was wearing….the lights were dimmed…”