The Keyword Method in a Digital Classroom

By taking advantage of the affordances of a digital--classroom environment, a two--stage mnemonic vocabulary--learning strategy called the keyword method can be used to create a multimodal, student--centered vocabulary learning tool.This paper will introduce the original keyword method (Atkinson, 1975), and then outline how modern technology was used to extend the method in a first--year reading and writing class at a University in Japan.