シャドーイング練習: Cambridge 16 IELTS Reading Test 4 Passage 2 - 動画で英語スピーキングを学ぶ
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Changes in reading habits What are the implications of the way we read today?
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Look around on your next plane trip.
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The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers.
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Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones, older kids don't read at all, but hunch over video games.
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Parents and other passengers read on tablets or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.
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Unbeknown to most of us, an invisible, game-changing transformation links everyone in this picture.
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The neuronal circuit that underlies the brain's ability to read is subtly,
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rapidly changing and this has implications for everyone from the pre-reading toddler to the expert adult.
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As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species brain more than 6,000 years ago.
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That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd,
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to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.
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My research depicts how the present reading brain enables the development of some of our most important intellectual and effective processes,
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internalized knowledge, analogical reasoning and inference, perspective taking and empathy, critical analysis and the generation of insight.
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Research surfacing in many parts of the world now cautions
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that each of these essential deep reading processes may be under threat as we move into digital-based modes of reading.
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This is not a simple, binary issue of print versus digital reading and technological innovation.
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As MIT scholar Sherry Turkle has written, we do not err as a society when we innovate but when we ignore what we disrupt or diminish while innovating.
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In this hinge moment between print and digital cultures, society needs to confront what is diminishing in the expert reading circuit,
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what our children and older students are not developing, and what we can do about it.
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We know from research that the reading circuit is not given to human beings through a genetic blueprint like vision or language, it needs an environment to develop.
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Further, it will adapt to that environment's requirements, from different writing systems to the characteristics of whatever medium is used.
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If the dominant medium advantages processes that are fast, multitask-oriented and well-suited for large volumes of information, like the current digital medium,
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so will the reading circuit.
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As UCLA psychologist Patricia Greenfield writes, the result is that less attention and time will be allocated to slower, time-demanding deep reading processes.
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Increasing reports from educators and from researchers in psychology and the humanities bear this out.
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English literature scholar
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and teacher Mark Edmondson describes how many college students actively avoid the classic literature of the 19th
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and 20th centuries in favor of something simpler, as they no longer have the patience to read longer, denser, more difficult texts.
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We should be less concerned with students' cognitive impatience, however, than by what may underlie it,
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the potential inability of large numbers of students to read with
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a level of critical analysis sufficient to comprehend the complexity of thought and argument found in more demanding texts.
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Multiple studies show
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that digital screen use may be causing a variety of troubling downstream effects on reading comprehension in older high school
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and college students in stavannah norway psychologist and mong
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and her colleagues studied how high school students comprehend the same material in different mediums
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mullins group asked subjects questions about a short story whose plot
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had universal student appear half of the students read the story on a tablet the other half in paperback
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Results indicated that students who read on print were superior in their comprehension to screen reading peers,
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particularly in their ability to sequence detail and reconstruct the plot in chronological order.
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Ximing Liu from San Jose State University has conducted a series of studies
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which indicate that the new norm in reading is skimming, involving word spotting and browsing through the text.
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Many readers now use a pattern when reading in
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which they sample the first line and then word spot through the rest of the text.
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When the reading brain skims like this, it reduces time allocated to deep reading processes.
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In other words, we don't have time to grasp complexity, to understand another's feelings, to perceive beauty, and to create thoughts of the readers on.
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The possibility that critical analysis, empathy, and other deep reading processes could become the unintended collateral damage
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of our digital culture is not a straightforward binary issue about print versus digital reading.
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It is about how we all have begun to read on various mediums how
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that changes not only what we read but also the purposes for
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which we read nor is it only about the young the subtle atrophy of critical analysis
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and empathy affects us all equally it affects our ability to navigate a constant bombardment of information
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it incentivizes a retreat to the most familiar stores of unchecked information
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which require and receive no analysis leaving us susceptible to false information and irrational ideas
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There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age, use it or lose it.
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It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
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The story of the changing reading brain is hardly finished.
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We possess both the science and the technology to identify and redress the changes in how we read before they become entrenched.
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If we work to understand exactly what we will lose, alongside the extraordinary new capacities that the digital world has brought us,
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there is as much reason for excitement as caution.
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このC1レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Cambridge 16 IELTS Reading Test 4 Passage 2」を教材にしています。 繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです:reading, student, digital, processes, circuit。 この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が59文、単語が932語あります。 音声の長さは6:00です。 話す速さは1分あたり約155語で、日常会話に近い自然なペースです。 英語の頻出3,000語に含まれる単語は78%だけなので、語彙は難しめです。
この動画の重要語彙
動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。
| 単語 | 発音 | 意味 |
|---|---|---|
| empathy 名詞 | /ˈɛmpəθi/ | 共感 |
| allocate 動詞 | /ˈæl.ə.keɪt/ | 取り置く |
| neuroscience 名詞 | 神経科学 | |
| underlie 動詞 | /ˌʌn.dɚˈlaɪ/ | 基礎となる |
| comprehension 名詞 | /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/ | 理解, 了解 |
| comprehend 動詞 | /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnd/ | 解る, 理解する |
| psychologist 名詞 | /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/ | 心理学者 |
| toddler 名詞 | /ˈtɑdlɚ/ | 幼児, 子供 |
| scholar 名詞 | /ˈskɑlɚ/ | 学生 |
| caution 名詞 | /ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/ | 注意 |
| complexity 名詞 | /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/ | 複雑さ |
| atrophy 名詞 | /ˈæt.ɹə.fi/ | 萎縮 |
| blueprint 名詞 | /ˈbluːˌpɹɪnt/ | 青写真 |
| bombardment 名詞 | /bɑmbɑɹdmənt/ | 爆撃, 砲撃 |
| chronological 形容詞 | /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/ | 経時的 |
この動画の文法
話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。
| 文型 | 動画での表現 |
|---|---|
| 現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している | has written · has conducted · have begun |
| 受動態 be + 過去分詞 — 誰がするかより、何が起きるかに焦点を当てる | is not given · will be allocated |
注意したい発音
- 「sh」と「zh」の音: diminish /dɪˈmɪnɪʃ/, implication /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/, comprehension /ˌkɑmpɹɪˈhɛnʃn̩/, caution /ˈkɔːʃ(ə)n/, impatience /ɪmˈpeɪʃəns/
- 長い単語(アクセントの位置に注意): implication /ˌɪmpləˈkeɪʃən/, psychologist /ˌsaɪˈkɑl.ə.d͡ʒɪst/, complexity /kəmˈplɛk.sɪ.ti/, chronological /ˌkɹɑnəˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/, incentivize /ɪnˈsɛntɪvaɪz/
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- まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
- 自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。empathy, allocate, neuroscienceなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。
シャドーイングとは?英語上達に効果的な理由
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