作者：贾敏
　　【Abstract】Many factors can affect memory efficiency in EFL. In this article the author divides them into subjective factors and objective factors.
　　【Key words】subjective factors； objective factors
　　【作者簡介】贾敏，山东工艺美术学院公共课教学部。
　　Many factors can affect memory efficiency in EFL. In this article the author divides them into subjective factors and objective factors.
　　I. subjective factors
　　Subjectively， one’s interest， perseverance， attention， experience and awareness of the objectives greatly influence one’s memory.
　　Interest is the psychological tendency of people’s exerting their effort to get to know and to explore one thing. People always take an active part in exploring the things which attracts them. Therefore， interest is the great inner drive for one to understand things and perform one’s activities. Those things that meet one’s needs and satisfy one’s interest easily enhance one’s enthusiasm and will make one undertake the tasks cheerfully and smoothly. If one shows no interest in one thing and even regards it as a burden， it’s very possible that he can’t do it well. Interest is not inborn and can be fostered.
　　Memory is a rather complicated process. For us the process of memorizing English words in EFL is very difficult to deal with. It’s this inextricable process that can trial whether one is perseverant or not. Those who have not the amazing willpower will never taste the delicious fruit of victory and the mere thing they can do is just giving up halfway.
　　The awareness of the objectives of memory is also very important. If one hasn’t a clear and definite aim， he can’t memorize things more effectively. Generally speaking， the clearer to the objectives， the deeper one understands the significance of the task， and the firmer one’s memory is.
　　Attention means that psychological activity points to and focuses on some objects. It also means the selective concentration on some objects. Instead of being an independent psychological process， attention is only a psychological state，， accompanying the other psychological process such as memory. It can’t reflect things. It only maintains the pointing state of the psychological activities and guarantees the effective conduct of the psychological activities. So no psychological activities can be carried out without attention， of course including memory. So if one wants to memorize something effectively and quickly， one must be attentive. Some English learners complain that they can’t memorize something even after reading it for ten times. The cause is their absentmindedness. Reading ten times without attention is not so effective as reading only once but attentively. “Do one thing at a time “emphasizes the importance of attention.