シャドーイング練習: An introduction to a lecture - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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This recording is from the British Council.
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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Welcome to the first lecture of our new course in Positive Psychology.
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While some people may associate psychology with looking at what's wrong with us and at what problems we have,
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there is much more to psychology than that.
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Positive psychology, for example, looks at how to help people become happier.
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This lecture begins with a question.
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What makes a happy life?
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Now, I'm going to give you one possible answer.
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A happy life is a life in which you are completely absorbed in what you do.
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Now, how does this compare with what you and your partner said?
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This answer comes from the work of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and the theory of flow.
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Csikszentmihalyi is a psychologist who has spent much of his professional life on the study of what makes people happy
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and how we can find happiness.
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Csikszentmihalyi suggests the theory that happiness is not caused by external events or things that happen to us.
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perception of these things and how we see these events either makes us happy or sad.
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In other words, if we want happiness, we have to actively look for it.
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However, this does not mean that we should always look for happiness.
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Csikszentmihalyi believed that our happiest moments happen when we are in a state of flow.
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The theory of flow can be summarized like this.
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When we are totally involved in or focused on what we are doing, we are in a state of flow.
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Csikszentmihalyi got the inspiration for this theory when he noticed how artists worked in a studio.
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They completely lost track of time.
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They didn't notice they were hungry or tired, and they could work for hours, even days, without stopping.
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Anyone I've spoken to who has experienced this state of concentration has said it's difficult to explain.
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The best way to explain it is that it is like being in a river
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and the flow of the water carries you away.
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For the rest of this lecture, I will explore this theory of flow in more detail.
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Well, first we will look at Csikszentmihalyi's life and how it influenced his ideas.
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Then we will look at the conditions that go with the state of flow.
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What creates flow exactly?
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Finally, we will look at activities that can help us achieve flow in our everyday lives.
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Will this course make you happy for life?
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Well maybe.
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Maybe.
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Right, let's get started.
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「An introduction to a lecture」を使って、シャドーイングで英語を練習しましょう。
毎日15〜30分の練習で、IELTSスピーキングへの自信と実践的な英会話力が身につきます。
シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由
シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。