时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:Scientific American(十一)月


英语课

Adults can have a tough time learning a new language. Some opt 1 for language immersion 2, in which the person spends all their time reading, listening to and speaking the new language. Now research reveals that immersion students do indeed learn the new language faster than students studying the language in a classroom situation—but immersion comes with a price. The work appears in the journal Psychological Science.


 


Other recent studies of both bilingual people and those learning a new language have shown that both languages appear to be active simultaneously 3 during reading, listening and speaking, which means that bilingual people have to constantly solve a cognitive 4 problem in order to use the right language at the right time.


 


En la investigacion, dos groups of American students learned Espanol. Veinte y cinco estudiantes took part en enfrascamiento absoluto de espanol en Espana. Pero un otro grupo studied solamente en la clase at their universidad en los Estados Unidos. Los estudiantes en Espana habla espanol mejor. Pero their English was no so bueno. Call it conservacion de conversacion.(此段用了英语、西语两种语言)


 



1 opt
vi.选择,决定做某事
  • They opt for more holiday instead of more pay.他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。
  • Will individual schools be given the right to opt out of the local school authority?各个学校可能有权选择退出地方教育局吗?
2 immersion
n.沉浸;专心
  • The dirt on the bottom of the bath didn't encourage total immersion.浴缸底有污垢,不宜全身浸泡于其中。
  • The wood had become swollen from prolonged immersion.因长时间浸泡,木头发胀了。
3 simultaneously
adv.同时发生地,同时进行地
  • The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
  • The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。
4 cognitive
adj.认知的,认识的,有感知的
  • As children grow older,their cognitive processes become sharper.孩子们越长越大,他们的认知过程变得更为敏锐。
  • The cognitive psychologist is like the tinker who wants to know how a clock works.认知心理学者倒很像一个需要通晓钟表如何运转的钟表修理匠。
标签: SSS immersion
学英语单词
aither
anisate
anoysance
biomonitors
biplumbic
bisarylated
blockade and embarge
brake moment
Burdiehouse limestone
calling trace
coacervation dyeing
come into existence
commercial access provider
compacted sub-soil base
course change index
crippling load
culmina
cytobiologist
decampments
decides upon
detokenization
deuteranoid
direct-contact heat exchanger
disinthrall
distichophyllum maibarae
diversifier
double strength glass
dursun
Dysecdysis
ellipse of concentration
empty nests
fays
fibrillated strand
flatcap
friendship benches
frigatebird
fur beetles
glenarden
goat-milk
granulation tumor
gun-cooling lines
Haller's rete
heliangine
high voltage source filter
horizontal tailplane
hydra (ydra )
hypercolour
Hövsgöl Aymag
in progression
indirect humidifier
keep their head above water
kid brother
lamb reverse
long draft spinning
midday prayer
middling particle
monometallic standard system
moulded steel
nulli-tetrasomics
oded
ovulariopsis ampelopsidis-heterophyllae
Panpipes
passenger ship subdivision
pemmicanized
photon drag photodetector
planktologist
platelet agglutination
record breaker
relative transmission level
rhytidocarpous
right hand plough
section dividing
self-reformings
sermocinators
ship auger
Small Holding Act
software network design
spinmeisters
stirred yoghurt with fruits
straight pedicellaria
straightly travelling s/r machine
supersampled
Synandon
synthetic inorganic pigment
the competition
thou mayest
three-way bulb
ultima ratio regum
universal potentiometer
vaporizing burner
vena ulnariss
video equipment
waiting period
wallaby bush
warangalone
warrenage
well-browed
wind resistance loss
worst-affected
wriht
Zehlendorf