How multilingual dreams are connected to language learning

时间:2024-03-28 01:08:12

(单词翻译:单击)

  关于睡眠状态下的人类大脑活动仍有许多待我们研究的地方,不过梦也许能给我们提供一些相关线索。本文探讨大脑学习外语的方式及梦里用外语交流对语言学习有何意义。
  词汇:language learning 语言学习
  It is often said that if we dream in a foreign language, it's a sign that we are making progress in learning that language. But is it true?
  Before we can look at multilingual dreams, first we need to look at sleep. The link between sleep and language can be applied1 to how we learn any language, including our mother tongue. Even adults still learn about one new word every two days in their first language, but, if we are going to have a firm grasp of that new word, we need to link it to our existing knowledge. And in order to do that, we 'need to have some sleep', says Gareth Gaskell, a psychology2 professor at the University of York.
  It's during sleep that the integration3 of old and new knowledge happens. At night, one part of our brain – the hippocampus – takes whatever new information it soaked up in the day, and passes it on to other parts of the brain to be stored. The role that dreams play in this night-time learning process is still being studied, but 'it's entirely4 possible that during multilingual dreams, the brain is trying to connect two languages', says Marc Züst, researcher at the University Hospital of Old Age Psychiatry5 and Psychotherapy in Bern, Switzerland.
  So having multilingual dreams could mean that our brain is trying to master a new word or phrase, for example, but it could also have an emotional significance. Danuta Gabry?-Barker, a professor of psycholinguistics at the University of Silesia in Poland, suggests that multilingual dreams can express 'fears and desires' around learning a foreign language, including the wish to be a native-like speaker or to be accepted within a certain community.
  We clearly still have a lot to learn about multilingual dreams, but one thing seems certain: if you're trying to learn a new language, you should definitely sleep on it.
  词汇表
  make progress 进步
  multilingual 使用多种语言的
  apply to 适用
  mother tongue 母语
  firm grasp of 牢牢掌握
  existing knowledge 已有知识
  integration 融合
  hippocampus 海马体
  soak up 吸收(信息)
  store 储存
  learning process 学习过程
  master 学习,掌握
  significance 重要意义
  psycholinguistics 心理语言学
  express 表达
  desire 渴望,愿望
  native-like 像母语人士一样的,地道的
  sleep on it “睡一觉再考虑”,考虑清楚再决定

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1 applied Tz2zXA     
adj.应用的;v.应用,适用
参考例句:
  • She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
  • This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。
2 psychology U0Wze     
n.心理,心理学,心理状态
参考例句:
  • She has a background in child psychology.她受过儿童心理学的教育。
  • He studied philosophy and psychology at Cambridge.他在剑桥大学学习哲学和心理学。
3 integration G5Pxk     
n.一体化,联合,结合
参考例句:
  • We are working to bring about closer political integration in the EU.我们正在努力实现欧盟內部更加紧密的政治一体化。
  • This was the greatest event in the annals of European integration.这是欧洲统一史上最重大的事件。
4 entirely entirely     
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
参考例句:
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
5 psychiatry g0Jze     
n.精神病学,精神病疗法
参考例句:
  • The study appeared in the Amercian science Journal of Psychiatry.这个研究发表在美国精神病学的杂志上。
  • A physician is someone who specializes in psychiatry.精神病专家是专门从事精神病治疗的人。

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