跟读练习: After watching this, your brain will not be the same | Lara Boyd | TEDxVancouver - 通过YouTube学习英语口语
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Translator: Jessica Lee Reviewer: Denise RQ So how do we learn?
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Translator: Jessica Lee Reviewer: Denise RQ So how do we learn?
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And why does some of us learn things more easily than others?
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So, as I just mentioned, I'm Dr. Lara Boyd.
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I am a brain researcher here at the University of British Columbia.
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These are the questions that fascinate me.
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(Cheers) (Applause) So brain research is one of the great frontiers in the understanding of human physiology, and also in the consideration of what makes us who we are.
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It's an amazing time to be a brain researcher, and I would argue to you that I have the most interesting job in the world.
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What we know about the brain is changing at a breathtaking pace.
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And much of what we thought we knew and understood about the brain turns out to be not true or incomplete.
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Some of these misconceptions are more obvious than others.
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For example, we used to think that after childhood the brain did not, really could not change.
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And it turns out that nothing could be farther from the truth.
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Another misconception about the brain is that you only use parts of it at any given time and it's silent when you do nothing.
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Well, this is also untrue.
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It turns out that even when you're at a rest and thinking of nothing, your brain is highly active.
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So it's been advances in technology, such as MRI, that's allowed us to make these and many other important discoveries.
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And perhaps the most exciting, the most interesting and transformative of these discoveries is that, every time you learn a new fact or skill, you change your brain.
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It's something we call neuroplasticity.
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So as little as 25 years ago, we thought that after about puberty, the only changes that took place in the brain were negative: the loss of brain cells with aging, the result of damage, like a stroke.
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And then, studies began to show remarkable amounts of reorganization in the adult brain.
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And the ensuing research has shown us that all of our behaviors change our brain.
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That these changes are not limited by age, it's a good news right?
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And in fact, they are taking place all the time.
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And very importantly, brain reorganization helps to support recovery after you damage your brain.
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The key to each of these changes is neuroplasticity.
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So what does it look like?
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So your brain can change in three very basic ways to support learning.
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And the first is chemical.
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So your brain actually functions by transferring chemicals signals between brain cells, what we call neurons, and this triggered a series of actions and reactions.
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So to support learning, your brain can increase the amount or the concentrations of these chemical signaling that's taking place between neurons.
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Because this change can happen rapidly, this supports short-term memory or the short-term improvement in the performance of a motor skill.
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The second way that the brain can change to support learning is by altering its structure.
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So during learning, the brain can change the connections between neurons.
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Here, the physical structure of the brain is actually changing so this takes a bit more time.
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These type of changes are related to long-term memory, the long-term improvement in a motor skill.
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These processes interact, and let me give you an example of how.
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We've all tried to learn a new motor skill, maybe playing the piano, maybe learning to juggle.
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You've had the experience of getting better and better within a single session of practice, and thinking "I have got it." And then, maybe you return the next day, and all those improvements from the day before are lost.
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What happened?
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Well, in the short-term, your brain was able to increase the chemical signaling between your neurons.
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But for some reason, those changes did not induce the structural changes that are necessary to support long-term memory.
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Remember that long-term memories take time.
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And what you see in the short term does not reflect learning, It's these physical changes that are now going to support long-term memories, and chemical changes that support short-term memories.
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Structural changes also can lead to integrated networks of brain regions that function together to support learning.
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And they can also lead to certain brain regions that are important for very specific behaviors to change your structure or to enlarge.
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So here's some examples of that.
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People who read Braille have larger hand sensory areas in their brain than those of us who don't.
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Your dominant hand motor region, which is on the left side of your brain, if you are right-handed, is larger than the other side.
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And research shows the London taxi cab drivers who actually have to memorize a map of London to get their taxi cab license, they have larger brain regions devoted to spatial, or mapping memories.
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The last way that your brain can change to support learning is by altering its function.
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As you use a brain region, It becomes more and more excitable and easy to use again.
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And as your brain has these areas that increase their excitability, the brain shifts how and when they are activated.
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With learning, we see that whole networks of brain activity are shifting and changing.
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So neuroplasticity is supported by chemical, by structural, and by functional changes, and these are happening across the whole brain.
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They can occur in isolation from one or another, but most often, they take place in concert.
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Together, they support learning.
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And they're taking place all the time.
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I just told you really how awesomely neuroplastic your brain is.
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Why can't you learn anything you choose to with ease?
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Why do our kids sometimes fail in school?
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Why as we age do we tend to forget things?
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And why don't people fully recover from brain damage?
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That is: what is it that limits and facilitates neuroplasticity?
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And so this is what I study.
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I study specifically how it relates to recovery from stroke.
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Recently, stroke dropped from being the third leading cause of death in the United States to be the forth leading cause of death.
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Great news, right?
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But actually, it turns out that the number of people having a stroke has not declined.
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We are just better at keeping people alive after a severe stroke.
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It turns out to be very difficult to help the brain recover from stroke.
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And frankly, we have failed to develop effective rehabilitation interventions.
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The net result of this is that stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability in adults in the world; individuals with stroke are younger and tending to live longer with that disability, and research from my group actually shows that the health-related quality of life of Canadians with stroke has declined.
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So clearly we need to be better at helping people recover from stroke.
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This is an enormous societal problem, and it's one that we are not solving.
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So what can be done?
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One thing is absolutely clear: the best driver of neuroplastic change in your brain is your behavior.
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The problem is that the dose of behavior, the dose of practice that's required to learn new and relearn old motor skills, is very large.
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And how to effectively deliver these large doses of practice is a very difficult problem; It's also a very expensive problem.
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So the approach that my research has taken is to develop therapies that prime or that prepare the brain to learn.
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And these have included brain simulation, exercise, and robotics.
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But through my research, I've realized that a major limitation to the development of therapies that speed recovery from stroke is that patterns of neuroplasticity are highly variable from person to person.
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As a researcher, variability used to drive me crazy.
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It makes it very difficult to use the statistics to test your data and your ideas.
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And because of this, medical intervention studies are specifically designed to minimize variability.
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But in my research, it's becoming really clear that the most important, the most informative data we collect is showing this variability.
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So by studying the brain after stroke, we've learned a lot, and I think these lessons are very valuable in other areas.
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The first lesson is that the primary driver of change in your brain is your behavior, so there is no neuroplasticity drug you can take.
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Nothing is more effective than practice at helping you learn, and the bottom line is you have to do the work.
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And in fact, my research has shown increased difficulty, increased struggle if you will, during practice, actually leads to both more learning, and greater structural change in the brain.
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The problem here is that neuroplastcity can work both ways.
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It can be positive, you learn something new, and you refine a motor skill.
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And it also can be negative though, you forgot something you once knew, you become addicted to drugs, maybe you have chronic pain.
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So your brain is tremendously plastic, and it's been shaped both structurally and functionally by everything you do, but also by everything that you don't do.
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The second lesson we've learned about the brain is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to learning.
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So there is no recipe for learning.
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Consider the popular belief that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn and to master a new motor skill.
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I can assure you it's not quite that simple.
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For some of us, it's going to take a lot more practice, and for others it may take far less.
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So the shaping of our plastic brains is far too unique for there to be any single intervention that's going to work for all of us.
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This realization has forced us to consider something call personalized medicine.
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This is the idea that to optimize outcomes each individual requires their own intervention.
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And the idea actually comes from cancer treatments.
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And here it turns out that genetics are very important in matching certain types of chemotherapy with specific forms of cancer.
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My research is showing that this also applies to recovery from stroke.
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There're certain characteristics of brain structure and function we called biomarkers.
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And these biomarkers are proving to be very helpful and helping us to match specific therapies with individual patients.
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The data from my lab suggests it's a combination of biomarkers that best predicts neuroplastic change and patterns of recovery after stroke.
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And that's not surprising, given how complicated the human brain is.
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But I also think we can consider this concept much more broadly.
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Given the unique structure and function of each of our brains what we've learned about neuroplasticity after stroke applies to everyone.
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Behaviors that you employ in your everyday life are important.
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Each of them is changing your brain.
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And I believe we have to consider not just personalized medicine but personalized learning.
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The uniqueness of your brain will affect you both as a learner and also as a teacher.
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This idea helps us to understand why some children can thrive in tradition education settings and others don't; why some of us can learn languages easily and yet, others can pick up any sport and excel.
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So when you leave this room today, your brain will not be the same as when you entered this morning.
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And I think that's pretty amazing.
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But each of you is going to have changed your brain differently.
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Understanding these differences, these individual patterns, this variability and change is going to enable the next great advance in neuroscience; it's going to allow us to develop new and more effective interventions, and allow for matches between learners and teachers, and patients and interventions.
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And this does not just apply the recovery from stroke, it applies to each of us, as a parent, as a teacher, as a manager, and also because you are at TEDx today, as a lifelong learner.
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Study how and what you learn best.
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Repeat those behaviors that are healthy for your brain, and break those behaviors and habits that are not.
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Practice. Learning is about doing the work that your brain requires.
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So the best strategies are going to vary between individuals.
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You know what, they're even going to vary within individuals.
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So for you, learning music may come very easily, but learning to snowboard, much harder.
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I hope that you leave today with a new appreciation of how magnificent your brain is.
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You and your plastic brain are constantly being shaped by the world around you.
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Understand that everything you do, everything you encounter, and everything you experience is changing your brain.
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And that can be for better, but it can also be for worse.
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So when you leave today, go out and build the brain you want.
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Thank you very much.
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关于本课:探索大脑学习的奥秘,提升您的英语口语练习
本视频由不列颠哥伦比亚大学的Lara Boyd博士主讲,深入探讨了我们的大脑如何学习以及为何有些人的学习能力更强。她用引人入胜的方式揭示了大脑学习的最新科学发现,驳斥了关于大脑的常见误解,并重点介绍了神经可塑性 (neuroplasticity)这一核心概念。您将了解到大脑在学习过程中发生的三种基本变化:化学性、结构性和功能性变化,以及它们如何影响我们的短期记忆和长期记忆。
通过观看和模仿本视频,您的英语口语练习将侧重于:
- 词汇主题: 学习与脑科学、生理学、学习过程相关的专业词汇,如“神经元 (neurons)”、“化学信号 (chemical signaling)”、“重组 (reorganization)”等。
- 语法模式: 掌握清晰、逻辑性强的解释性语句结构,以及如何用英语表达复杂概念和因果关系。
- 口语场景: 提升在学术或TED演讲类场合中阐述科学观点、分析问题和清晰表达观点的能力,这对于准备雅思口语的同学非常有帮助。
重要词汇和短语
以下是视频中一些对英语学习者非常有用的词汇和短语,附带中文解释:
- great frontiers (巨大的前沿/领域): 指某个领域尚未被充分探索或理解的重要部分。
- at a breathtaking pace (以惊人的速度): 形容某事物发展或变化非常快,令人惊讶。
- misconceptions (误解): 对某事物的错误观念或理解。
- nothing could be farther from the truth (大错特错,与事实相去甚远): 表示某个说法是完全错误的。
- highly active (高度活跃的): 形容某事物处于非常活跃或忙碌的状态。
- neuroplasticity (神经可塑性): 大脑改变其结构和功能以响应经验的能力。
- remarkable amounts of reorganization (惊人的重组量): 指大脑内部发生的显著而大量的结构或功能调整。
- devoted to (专注于,致力于): 表示将时间和精力投入到某项活动或领域中。
本视频练习技巧:提升发音与流利度
为了充分利用这段视频进行英语口语练习,我们建议您采取以下跟读技巧:
- 语速与节奏: Lara Boyd博士的语速适中偏快,发音清晰。在发音练习时,尝试模仿她的语速和停顿,尤其是在解释复杂概念时,她会适当地放慢语速并加重语气,这对于提升您的英语流利度至关重要。
- 口音与发音: 她的口音是典型的北美英语(可能带有加拿大口音)。您可以专注于模仿她的元音和辅音发音,特别是“r”音和“t”音。注意单词的重音和句子的语调,以更自然地表达。
- 主题理解与表达: 视频内容涉及科学和学术领域,这对于准备雅思口语或托福口语的同学是极佳的素材。尝试理解并用自己的话复述她提出的关于大脑学习的三个主要变化(化学、结构、功能),这将有效锻炼您用英语解释抽象概念的能力。
- 模仿演讲风格: 留意Lara Boyd博士如何组织她的论点,如何引入新信息,以及如何使用例子来支持她的观点。在跟读时,不仅仅是模仿发音,还要模仿她的表达方式和自信的演讲风格。
什么是跟读法?
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。
如何在ShadowingEnglish上有效练习
- 选择您的视频: 挑选一段语音清晰、自然的YouTube视频。TED演讲,BBC新闻,电影片段,播客或雅思口语范例都很好。将URL粘贴到搜索栏中。从较短的视频(短于5分钟)以及您真正感兴趣的内容开始——兴趣是最重要的导师。
- 先听,理解上下文: 第一次听的时候,将速度保持在1倍速并仅仅倾听。还不要尝试重复。专注于理解其含义,收集新词汇,并注意讲话人如何强调单词,连读声音及使用停顿。
- 设置跟读模式:
- 等待模式:选择
+3s或+5s——在每句话播放完毕后,视频会自动暂停以便您有时间大声重复它。如果您想完全控制并在每次重复后由您自己点击下一步,请选择手动。 - 字幕同步:YouTube字幕有时会在音频前或后略微出现。使用
±100ms使它们完美对齐以助您准确跟读。
- 等待模式:选择
- 大声跟读(核心练习): 这是真正发生改变的一步。当一个句子播放出来立刻——或在暂停期间——大声、清晰且自信地重复出来。千万不要只是张张嘴:要模仿说话者的准确节奏、重音、音高和连读。力求听上去就像说话者的影子,而不仅是逐字背诵。使用重复功能多次练习同一个句子,直到感觉自然为止。
- 提高难度: 当练习段落变得相对舒适后,就去挑战自我。将速度增加至 <code>1.25x</code> 或甚至 <code>1.5x</code> 以训练高速语言反射。或者将等待模式调整为 <code>关闭</code> 以进行连续跟读——这是最进阶同样收益最大的模式。持续的每日15–30分钟的练习将可以在几周内产生可见的效果。