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how multilingual dreams are connected to language learning 多语言的梦与语言学习的联系
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 1 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 2 professor at the university of york.
it's during sleep that the 3 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 4 possible that during multilingual dreams, the brain is trying to connect two languages', says marc züst, researcher at the university hospital of old age 5 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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