上钢琴课或听音乐有助于提高语言表达能力

1、4上钢琴课或听音乐有助于提高语言表达能力PianoLess ons Tune Up Lan guage Skills钢琴课有助于提高语言表达能力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.据说音乐家拥有较好的语言表达能力。而科学研究也证实了这一理论，不过对于音乐为何会激发语言能力，这一点还不清楚。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.现在一项针对74名中国幼儿园小朋友的研究表明，六个月的钢 琴课会提高大脑对音高变化的反应能力。而这些上过钢琴课的小孩， 在分辨两个发音类似、但词语中包含不同声母的中文词语方面，比那些接受过额外阅读训练的学生或者上普通幼儿园的学生做得更好。The results are in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scie nces.这项研究结果发表在美国国家科学院院刊上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?由于普通话是一门声调语言，最有名的例子是“ma ”这个音的意思可能是“妈”还是“马”都是由声调来决定的。那么，音乐训练 对学习中文的帮助比对学英语的帮助要大？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;麻省理工学院麦戈文研究所的神经学家罗伯特 •德西蒙表 示：“是的，结果很可能是那样的。”他说，但是其它研究也证实了一 个事实，即：音乐课对语言学习者有益，甚至对不是声调语言的国家（的学生）也有益。“除此以外，对于这些益处，我们的研究补充了 一些关于神经基础方面的概念。”And 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;还有，如果你没有钢琴，也不要绝望。接受阅读训练的小组在某 些方面，和上钢琴课的学生表现得一样出色。“阅读实际上非常好。我们并没有要贬低阅读教学的意思。”More 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