Deliberate practice develops skills that other people have already figured out how to do and for which effective training techniques have been established. The practice regimen should be designed and overseen by a teacher or coach who is familiar with the abilities of expert performers and with how those abilities can best be developed.
Deliberate practice both produces and depends on effective mental representations. Improving performance goes hand in hand with improving mental representations; as one’s performance improves, the representations become more detailed and effective, in turn making it possible to improve even more. Mental representations make it possible to monitor how one is doing, both in practice and in actual performance. They show the right way to do something and allow one to notice when doing something wrong and to correct it.
Deliberate practice nearly always involves building or modifying previously acquired skills by focusing on particular aspects of those skills and working to improve them specifically; over time this step-by-step improvement will eventually lead to expert performance. Because of the way that new skills are built on top of existing skills, it is important for teachers to provide beginners with the correct fundamental skills in order to minimize the chances that the student will have to relearn those fundamental skills later when at a more advanced level.
詞匯
1）regimen? n. 計劃串塑，療法
2）oversee? n. 監(jiān)督北苟，監(jiān)視
3）mental representation? n. 心理表征
4）go hand in hand with? 與…相輔相成
5）monitor? v. 監(jiān)督，監(jiān)視友鼻；n. 顯示屏
6）modify? v. 修改，改變
7）acquire? v. 學(xué)到彩扔，獲得
8）minimize the chances? 最小化…的機會
