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＜中英文對照讀新聞＞Making things hard to read can boost learning讓東西難以閱讀可提升學習成效

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Difficult-to-read fonts make for better learning, according to scientists. Researchers at Princeton University employed volunteers to learn made-up information about different types of aliens - and found that those reading harder fonts recalled more when tested 15 minutes later.

根據科學家指出，難讀的字體有助學習。普林斯頓大學的研究人員，請志願者學習有關不同類外星人的捏造資訊，結果發現，讀較難字體的人，在15分鐘後的測驗中記得較多。

They argue that schools could boost results by simply changing the font used in their basic teaching materials.

他們認為，學校可以簡單藉著改變基本教材中的字體，提高學習成果。

The 28 volunteers in the Princeton study were given 90 seconds to try to memorise a list of seven features for three different species of alien. The idea was to re-create the kind of learning in a biology class. Aliens were chosen to be sure that none of the volunteers’ prior knowledge interfered with the results.

普林斯頓這份研究中的28名志願者，有90秒可以嘗試記憶有關3種不同外星人的7種特徵表。實驗的概念是要重塑生物課的學習情景，之所以選擇外星人，是要確定志願者之前的知識不會影響結果。

The volunteers were distracted for 15 minutes, and then tested on how much they could remember. Researchers found that, on average, those given the harder-to-read fonts actually recalled 14% more. They believe that presenting information in a way that is hard to digest means a person has to concentrate more, and this leads to "deeper processing" and then "better retrieval" afterwards

志願者接著分心15分鐘，而後測試能記得多少。研究人員發現，拿到較難讀字體的人，實際上可想起來的多14％。他們認為，以較難消化的字體呈現資訊，代表一個人必須要更專心，這也會導致「較深度的處理」，以及之後「較佳的回想」。

新聞辭典

recall：動詞，回想，記得。例句：Can you recall what happened last night?（你記得昨晚發生甚麼事嗎？）

interfere with：片語，干擾。例句：Even a low level of noise interferes with my concentration.（即使是很低的噪音也會影響我的專注力。）

retrieval：名詞，恢復、取回，動詞為retrieve。例句：Computers are used to store and retrieve information efficiently.（電腦是用來有效儲存與擷取資訊。）