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This paper examines a natural lecture text recorded from an ESL class to see how the short-term memory works to process linguistic information in natural utterances. The examinations show that linguistic information is processed based on thought groups and that all the sentences consist of no more than 5 units of thought group. Over 90% of the sentences appeared to be 3 or less units. The results of the study suggest that English teaching should consider how the short-term memory works, especially how it processes linguistic information in terms of thought group. In addition, teaching vocabulary for vocabulary to students lacking oral skill is not effective and even can be dangerous to them because it tends to pull them down from the sentence to word level. A student whose processes of linguistic information remains on the word level can hardly expect to be fluent, however many vocabulary items they memorize.