hugo.You know that game in which players have to use their memory to find pairs of matching cards? Of course you do!
Used extensively in language teaching, it’s commonly referred to as “pelmanism.” I first heard that term many years ago at a teacher development workshop; assuming it was just a fancy word for a memory game (which is exactly what it is), at the time I didn’t pay much attention to it. But it did sound sort of intriguing: why "pelmanism"?
Read my latest blog post to find out! https://grammaticus.blog/2025/02/05/pelmanism/
