Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: How Social Media Is Rewiring Our Brains

Social media is a fascinating new human phenomenon and when we look at it deeply from a brain point of view,

when we start with the foundation that the brain is actually the social organ of the body,

we can understand why social media and and brain functions would go hand in hand.

That is, the reason social media took off in this last 10 years is

because the brain is social and people really want to connect with each other.

And then, once social media was designed and keeps on creating itself, then the social media, in fact,

is going to be shaping the brain so that the brain is responsive to culture.

And in one of our research centers at UCLA, what we're able to show is that cultural experiences,

that is messages sent out in society that are mediated through communication, either one-on-one or mass media communication,

actually shape the actual structure of the brain.

And so it's a two-way street.

The brain created social media, and social media shapes the brain.

One of the simple things I think

that social media does is it brings us back at least to a feeling on one level

that we're having the connections that we evolved to have.

It's a great question, you know, is social media replacing our relationships or is it adding to it?

From a brain point of view, the difference between let's say email and social media versus face to face interaction is very interesting.

So studies for example that have shown what it's like

when you actually are with someone face to face where you have eye contact, you're sharing facial expressions, there's a tone The tone of voice you can hear,

the posture of the person, the gestures, the timing of what they do, the intensity of what they respond with.

Those seven signals, and those are eye contact, facial expression, tone of voice, posture, gestures, timing, intensity.

If you memorize those, it's really useful because then you'll see what texting, what email, and what most social media actually is lacking.

Now, when you look at what area of the brain both sends out those non-verbal signals

and receives them and makes sense of them, it's the right hemisphere of the brain.

And the right hemisphere of the brain is much more closely connected to the lower regions, so the higher right areas are connected to the lower regions of the brain

and those lower regions work with the body itself to create our emotions, to give us the felt texture of lived life.

So one deep concern that I have as a developmental theorist

and a developmental clinician is is that the more and more people spend time not using non-verbal signals,

and instead use mostly verbal ones, that is, text with language that has this linear way of being distributed,

you're activating primarily your left hemisphere, which in the brain is much more distant from the lower areas that help mediate emotion with the body.

And even autobiographical memory is dominant on the right side, so you're much more into just logistics.

Even thinking about how people are gonna care about you

or like you is a left brain thing

which is fascinating it's called social display rules

so from a hemisphere point of view what i'm deeply concerned about is

if social media email texting are not actually getting people more face-to-face time with each other

or getting them in touch with even what's going on inside

of them then the new generation will be much more used to a very surface level of experiencing the world.

So there's nothing inherently wrong with social media, but if it is replacing time for face-to-face,

then that could be a big problem.

Phương Pháp Shadowing Là Gì?

Shadowing là kỹ thuật học ngôn ngữ có cơ sở khoa học, ban đầu được phát triển cho chương trình đào tạo phiên dịch viên chuyên nghiệp và được phổ biến rộng rãi bởi nhà đa ngôn ngữ học Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Nguyên lý cốt lõi đơn giản nhưng cực kỳ hiệu quả: bạn nghe tiếng Anh của người bản xứ và lặp lại to ngay lập tức — như một "cái bóng" (shadow) đuổi theo người nói với độ trễ chỉ 1–2 giây. Khác với luyện ngữ pháp hay học từ vựng bị động, Shadowing buộc não bộ và cơ miệng phải đồng thời xử lý và tái tạo ngôn ngữ thực tế. Các nghiên cứu khoa học xác nhận phương pháp này cải thiện đáng kể phát âm, ngữ điệu, nhịp điệu, nối âm, kỹ năng nghe và độ lưu loát khi nói — đặc biệt hiệu quả cho người luyện IELTS Speaking và muốn giao tiếp tiếng Anh tự nhiên như người bản ngữ.

Luyện nói tiếng Anh bằng Shadowing qua video: How Social Media Is Rewiring Our Brains

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