托福阅读材料音乐和外语培训能提高语言能力.docxVIP

智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读材料：音乐和外语培训能提高语言能力 摘要： 音乐和外语类培训是当今许多家长热衷给孩子报名的课外培训内容，一项美国最新的研究发现证明了这些家长的明智选择，因为据该项研究称，音乐训练对人类的外语水平提高有很大帮助。 托福 阅读备考材料： 音乐才能与外语能力(特殊的语言能力)是人大脑功能的有机组成部分，是人心智发展的生物基础。离开这一物质基础，任何个体的发展都是不可想象的。美国语言学家贾肯多夫和作曲家勒达尔在《有调性音乐的生成理论》一书中列举了人类不同文化共享的与生俱来的60余条音乐规则。同时他们认为人类85%的语言规则是天赋的，其余是后天习得的；95%的音乐规则是先天的；人本身具有某种语言与音乐认知能力。 Learning to play a musical instrument can change your brain， with a US review finding music training can lead to improved speech and foreign language skills. 美国一项研究表明，学习乐器能够使大脑发生变化，音乐训练能够提高演讲和外语水平。 Although it has been suggested in the past that listening to Mozart or other classical music could make you smarter， there has been little evidence to show that music boosts brain power. 尽管过去有人认为听莫扎特或其他古典音乐可以让人变得更聪明，但是并没有足够的证据证明音乐能提高智力。 But a data-driven review by Northwestern University has pulled together research that links musical training to learning that spills over intoskills including language， speech， memory， attention and even vocalemotion. 如今，美国西北大学的一项研究以数据为支持，对音乐训练对语言、演讲、记忆力、注意力甚至情感抒发等能力的影响的相关研究进行了分析。 Researcher Nina Kraus said the data strongly suggested that the neural connections made during musical training also primedthe brain for other aspects of human communication. 研究人员妮娜？克劳斯说，这些数据充分表明，音乐训练过程中所产生的神经元连接能增强大脑在人际交流其它方面的能力。 The effect of music training suggests that， akin tophysical exercise and its impact on body fitness， music is a resource that tones the brain for auditory fitness and thus requires society to re-examine the role of music in shaping individual development， the researchers said in their study. 研究人员在研究报告中说：“音乐训练所产生的这种影响表明，与体育锻炼对身体健康的影响一样，音乐能够增强大脑活力，使听觉更加敏锐。所以我们的社会有必要重视音乐在个人发展中所起的作用。” Kraus said learning musical sounds could enhance the brains ability to adapt and change and also enable the nervous system to provide a scaffoldingof patterns that are important to learning. 克劳斯说，学习声乐能够提高大脑的应变能力，也可以让神经系统建立起一个有利于学习的结构。 The study， published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience， looked at t