INTRODUCTION The study of expertise tends to focus on humans who can perform extraordinary feats. Although the way in which expertise is acquired is often characterized as similar to everyday skill acquisition, the attainment of basic numeracy skills is rarely considered in the same context as the attainment of expertise. It is clear, though, that average numeracy skills possess all the hallmar...

Athletes devote their lives to practicing their chosen sport so as to attain the highest level of skilled performance. A perennial question is why are some athletes better than others? Most debates on this issue reduce to genetics (natural abilities) vs differences in accumulated deliberative practice. In contrast, the target article under discussion here reports on a study that identified psyc...

OBJECTIVE Box model trainers have been used for many years to facilitate the improvement of laparoscopic skills. However, there are limited data available on box trainers and their impact on skill acquisition, assessed by virtual reality systems. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-two Postgraduate Year 1 gynecology residents with no laparoscopic experience were randomly divided into one group that r...

Listening is an important language skill to develop in terms of second language acquisition (SLA). In spite of its importance, second language (L2) learners often regard listening as the most difficult language skill to learn. This paper reviews a variety of recent research on listening comprehension to provide a basis for creating more effective listening instruction. It begins with a brief di...

By scholarly consensus, listening is a fundamental language-related skill. It closely linked to and affected by other language skills, such as speaking, reading, writing. The focus of learning was initially on written communication. Slowly but surely, started gain ground solicited skill for learners. Several theories methods have cropped up suggest new techniques strategies geared toward foster...

<span lang="EN-US">This paper describes the learning techniques of Arabic subjects and results evaluation students' speaking skills. This study involved 51 language teachers 395 State Madrasah Aliyah students in Jambi Province, Indonesia. obtained quantitative qualitative data. The research instrument used a questionnaire, checklist, oral test. data were analyzed descriptively (frequency,...

This study was a descriptive qualitative study. Students' Learning Styles in Speaking Skill the subject of this The goal to find out how students' learning styles affected their speaking skills. In study, sample consisted one English teacher and 23 second-year students from SMPN 3 Rambah Hilir. Questionnaires (15 statements) interviews (3 questions) were utilized by researcher collect data. dat...