今天早晨的英语早读时间,我特意找了几位基础薄弱的学生探讨学习方法。说到如何提升阅读能力时,有位男生不假思索地回答:”当然要先背单词啊,生词都不认识怎么读得下去?”这种观点立刻引起其他学生的共鸣,他们普遍认为阅读之前必须先记单词,就像建造房屋必须先备足砖瓦。
然而认知语言学领域的研究数据却给出了相反的结论。
学者Nagy与Herman早在上世纪80年代通过对照实验证实,通过大量阅读获得的”附带习得”(incidental acquisition),其词汇记忆效率是机械背诵的3.2倍。
A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
W.H. Auden