上鋼琴課或聽音樂有助于提高語言表達能力

1、4上鋼琴課或聽音樂有助于提高語言表達能力PianoLess ons Tune Up Lan guage Skills鋼琴課有助于提高語言表達能力Musicians are said to have better Ianguage skills. And scientific studies have backed that up. But it's not clear why that might be the case.據(jù)說音樂家擁有較好的語言表達能力。而科學研究也證實了這一理論，不過對于音樂為何會激發(fā)語言能力，這一點還不清楚。Now a study of 74 Chinese ki

2、ndergartnerssuggests sixmon ths of pia no less ons can heighte n the brai n's resp onse to changes in pitch. And kids who got piano lessons were also better at telling apart two similar-sounding Mandarin words,which containeddifferent consonants,than were studentswho got extra readi ng training,

3、 or who went through regular kin dergarte n.現(xiàn)在一項針對74名中國幼兒園小朋友的研究表明，六個月的鋼 琴課會提高大腦對音高變化的反應能力。而這些上過鋼琴課的小孩， 在分辨兩個發(fā)音類似、但詞語中包含不同聲母的中文詞語方面，比那些接受過額外閱讀訓練的學生或者上普通幼兒園的學生做得更好。The results are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie nces.這項研究結果發(fā)表在美國國家科學院院刊上Now Man dari n is a ton al la nguage - the fam

4、ous exampleis the word 'ma' which can mean mother or horse depe nding on its pitch. So might musical trainingtranslate better toMan dari n, tha n it would to En glish?由于普通話是一門聲調語言，最有名的例子是“ma ”這個音的意思可能是“媽”還是“馬”都是由聲調來決定的。那么，音樂訓練 對學習中文的幫助比對學英語的幫助要大？Yeah it's possible that in flue needthe re

5、sults. RobertDesim one, a n euroscie ntist at the McGovern In stitute at MIT.But he says other studies do back up the fact that music less ons ben efit Ian guage lear ners, eve n in coun tries without ton al la nguages. "A nd what our study added on top of that was some idea of the n eural

6、basis for those ben efits .&qu ot;麻省理工學院麥戈文研究所的神經學家羅伯特 •德西蒙表 示：“是的，結果很可能是那樣的。”他說，但是其它研究也證實了一 個事實，即：音樂課對語言學習者有益，甚至對不是聲調語言的國家（的學生）也有益。“除此以外，對于這些益處，我們的研究補充了 一些關于神經基礎方面的概念?！盇nd if you don't own a pia no, don't despair. The readi ng group actually did just as good on many measures as

7、 the pia no group. "Readi ng's pretty good actually. We don't mean to dow nplay read ing in structi on.&qu ot;還有，如果你沒有鋼琴，也不要絕望。接受閱讀訓練的小組在某 些方面，和上鋼琴課的學生表現(xiàn)得一樣出色?！伴喿x實際上非常好。我們并沒有要貶低閱讀教學的意思?！盡ore importa nt, he says, was to show pia no was n't actually worse tha n read ing for these skills. perhaps en couragi ng cash-strapped