世博英语札记【28】1999年12月2日札记

1999年12月2日

我在英语的学习过程中,有一点感受特别深,那就是"要投入的表演,而不是机械的重复."下面的这段话说的就是这个道理,希望你能在充分操练后,给你的朋友或同学打个电话娓娓道来.

Acting and Rehearsing instead of Mindless Repetition

Language learning lays a great demand on your memory.There are so many things you have to remerber and? can recall at any time.Your memory is however a delicate thing.You should follow the way your memory works,not the way you want it to work.One thing you should not do is force things into your memory when it is not ready to absorb them.For instance,some learners try to memorize the spelling of a complicated word by writing it again and again,...or a piece of conversation by repeting line by line,and again and again and again.They are actually not memorizing the word or the conversation.They are torturing their poor brain.The right way of doing it is to try to make frequent visits to the word,such as by using it,or displaying it in the places where you often go and cannot fail to see it.In the case of conversation,do not repeat the lines in a boring manner.You act the conversation out,such as by assuming alternative roles and talking to yourself in a mirror or to a tape recorder.You'll never forget the word or the conversation if you memorize them in this way.