研究人员让来自中国的学生与一个金发碧眼的网络虚拟形象对话,然后与一个黑发黑眼的中国人的网络虚拟形象对话,结果学生们前后表现出的英语表达技能大不相同。让学生们面对一个中国的对话对象确实会影响他们说英语的水平。与中国人的网络虚拟形象对话时,学生们在对话中感到更加轻松自如,但是他们每分钟使用的语汇少了11%。他们使用英语的流利程度真的降低了。
To make sure it wasn't just the avatar, researchers also showed people random images of China while the participants told a story. When pictures of their homeland appeared, fluency dropped 16% and volunteers were 85% more likely to use a literal translation, for example, calling pistachios "happy nuts". Because that's literally what the Chinese word for pistachio means.
为了确证上述实验现象不仅仅出现在学生们与网络虚拟形象对话的过程中,研究者们还请学生们讲述故事,并在此过程中向学生们展示随机选出的中国人图像。当这些祖国同胞们的图像出现的时候,学生们讲述故事的流利程度降低了16%、使用牵强附会的中式英语的几率多了85%。比如,他们会把开心果说成“快乐的坚果”。因为在中文中开心果的意思直译成英语就是这个意思。
The brain is constantly sucking in information and, let's be honest, it's lazy, so when the brain can do something it already knows how to do, it will. In this case the shortcut is reverting to its old patterns and neuropathways.
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