上鋼琴課或聽音樂有助于提高語言表達(dá)能力

1、上鋼琴課或聽音樂有助于提高語言表達(dá)能力PianoLess ons Tune Up Lan guage SkillsMusicians are said to have better language skills. And scientific studies have backed that up. But its not clear why that might be the case.據(jù)說音樂家擁有較好的語言表達(dá)能力。而科學(xué)研究也證實(shí)了這一 理論，不過對于音樂為何會(huì)激發(fā)語言能力，這一點(diǎn)還不清楚。Now a study of 74 Chinese kindergartnerssuggest

2、s sixmon ths of pia no less ons can heighte n the brai ns resp onse to changes in pitch. And kids who got piano lessons were also better attelling apart two similar-sounding Mandarin words, which contained different consonants, than were studentswho got extra readi ng training, or who went through r

3、egular kin dergarte n.現(xiàn)在一項(xiàng)針對74名中國幼兒園小朋友的研究表明，六個(gè)月的鋼琴 課會(huì)提高大腦對音高變化的反應(yīng)能力。而這些上過鋼琴課的小孩，在分 辨兩個(gè)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(xùn)練的學(xué)生或者上普通幼兒園的學(xué)生做得更好。The results are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie nces.這項(xiàng)研究結(jié)果發(fā)表在美國國家科學(xué)院院刊上Now Man dari n is a ton al la nguage - the famous exampleis the word

4、 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(diào)語言，最有名的例子是“ ma ”這個(gè)音的 意思可能是“媽”還是“馬”都是由聲調(diào)來決定的。那么，音樂訓(xùn)練對 學(xué)習(xí)中文的幫助比對學(xué)英語的幫助要大？Yeah its possible that in flue needthe results. RobertDesim one, a n eurosci

5、e 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 basis for those ben efits &qu ot;麻省理工學(xué)院

6、麥戈文研究所的神經(jīng)學(xué)家羅伯特•德西蒙表示：“是的，結(jié)果很可能是那樣的?！彼f，但是其它研究也證實(shí)了一個(gè)事 實(shí)，即：音樂課對語言學(xué)習(xí)者有益，甚至對不是聲調(diào)語言的國家（的學(xué)生）也有益?！俺艘酝猓瑢τ谶@些益處，我們的研究補(bǔ)充了 一些尖于神經(jīng)基礎(chǔ)方面的概念?！盇nd if you dont own a pia no, dont despair. The readi ng group actually did just as good on many measures as the pia no group. "Readi ngs pretty good actually. We dont 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(xùn)練的小組在某些 方面，和上鋼琴課的學(xué)生表現(xiàn)得一樣出色?！伴喿x實(shí)際上非常好。我們并沒有要貶低閱讀教學(xué)的意思?！盡ore importa nt, he says, was to show pia no was nt actually worse tha n read ing for these skills. perhaps en couragi ng cash- strapped school