2022考研英语 外刊素材积累

How video games are teaching the world to speak English

想学英语？多打打电子游戏吧

 

导读

亚利桑那大学的乔纳森·莱因哈特说，人们“在玩电子游戏的过程中会非正式地学习英语”。“或者，他们玩这个游戏是因为他们想玩……但因为他们的母语中没有这种语言，他们就会……顺便学习这种语言。”

双语阅读

 

All that gaming has an impact on language comprehension. A 2017 peer-reviewed study published in CALICO Journal found that of young Daneswho played video games in English, those who did so regularly outside schoolscored higher on English vocabulary tests than their peers who did not. 

游戏对语言理解有影响。2017年发表在《CALICO 期刊》上的一项同行评议研究发现，经常在校外玩英语电子游戏的年轻丹麦人在英语词汇测试中的得分要高于不玩游戏的同龄人。

 

 

With video games, “all of a sudden English becomes aninstrument; something that’s very useful for them in order to progress in the game,” says the author of the study, Signe Hannibal Jensen, assistant professorin the department of language and communication at the University of Southern Denmark. This shifts kids’ focus from “learning to learn,” as in aclassical school setting, to “learning to play.” 

 

 

 

It makes sense that “the very things that we can’t dragout of students in school are the kinds of things that they’re doing forfun on their own in online extramural environments,” says StevenThorne, a professor of second language acquisition at Portland (Oregon) State University and of linguistics at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. 

 

波特兰(俄勒冈州)州立大学第二语言习得教授、荷兰格罗宁根大学语言学教授史蒂文·索恩说，“那些我们无法从学生身上激发出来的东西，正是他们在校外网络环境中自娱自乐的事情。”这是很有道理的。波特兰州立大学第二语言习得教授、荷兰格罗宁根大学语言学教授史蒂文·索恩说:“那些我们无法在学校从学生身上激发出来的东西，正是他们在校外网络环境中自娱自乐得到的。”这是很有道理的。 

 

Dr. Thorne notes that video games are not a perfect solution. Some gaming environments “are very language heavy and language rich, others don’t really require much language at all,” he says. And gaming isn’t always virtuous, he cautions – players can become addicted, and some games can promote extreme violence.

 

索恩博士指出，电子游戏并不是一个完美的办法。他说，一些游戏环境“需要大量而丰富的语言，而有些则根本不需要太多的语言。”他提醒说，游戏并不总是良性的——玩家可能会上瘾，一些游戏还会助长极端暴力。

 

 

In the future, video games might become a more utilized option among the tools language learners already use, including phone apps, podcasts, YouTube videos, and in-person instruction. Dr. Reinhardt says it makes sense that gaming would increasingly seep into more formal classroom settings.

 

未来，在语言学习者已经使用的工具中，如手机应用程序、播客、油管视频和现场教学等，电子游戏可能会成为一个更有用的选择。莱因哈特博士说，游戏越来越多地渗透到正式的课堂环境中是有道理的。

 

 

 

词汇积累

    1.shift

• 英 /ʃɪft/ 美     /ʃɪft/

• v.转移；快速移动；变换；改变观点；推卸（责任）；振作；移位；狼吞虎咽地吃；去除（污迹）；销售，出售；换挡；轮班；含糊其辞，拐弯抹角

n.转移；改变，转变；手段；轮班；轮班职工；转换（键）；（直筒式）连衣裙，内衣；计谋，诡计

    2.extramural

• 英 /ekstrəˈmjʊərəl/ 美 /ekstrəˈmjʊərəl/

• adj.市外的；校际比赛的；单位以外的

    3.seep

• 英 /siːp/ 美     /siːp/

• v.（液体）渗漏，渗透；逐渐移动，渐渐散开

n.（油、水）渗出地表的地方

 

词组搭配

    1.drag out of  将…从…处拉出来

 

写作句总结

A 2017 peer-reviewed study published in CALICO Journal found that of young Danes who played video games in English, those who did so regularly outside school scored higher on English vocabulary tests than their peers who did not. 

结构:sb.scored higher on sth. than their peers who did not. 

XX比其他不做这件事的人在XX方面得分更高

例句:

Students who like to solve problems independently  scored higher on exams than their peers who did not.