EFL Teacher and Applied Linguistics Researcher · Uzbekistan
Ravshan Khujakulov is a dedicated and results-oriented EFL teacher with a Master's degree in TESOL and more than a decade of experience teaching English at university level in Uzbekistan.
He specialises in creating engaging and effective learning environments for students of all levels, with a particular focus on the cognitive and psychological dimensions of vocabulary acquisition. His research in applied linguistics informs a teaching approach grounded in evidence from memory science.
Fluent in English and Uzbek, he is committed to fostering intercultural understanding and empowering learners to achieve their language goals through strategies that work with, rather than against, how the brain actually learns.
A university EFL teacher and applied linguistics researcher explains why students forget vocabulary so fast, drawing on the Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve, levels of processing, interference theory, the spacing effect, and retrieval practice -- with classroom strategies adapted to real teaching conditions.