托福口语6种题型.ppt

understand a little better. Conscious competence refers to an individuals understanding or knowledge of doing something. However, demonstrating the skill or knowledge requires a great deal of conscious concentration. Heres an example: when you first start to learn typing on a computer keyboard, you have to work hard at hitting the right keys without being bothered by other things in order to get everything correct. Sometimes, you need to stop to talk with others. As a result, typing an article will take a long time, but you make few mistakes. However, when it comes to the stage of unconscious competence, an individual has mastered the skill so that it becomes second nature and can be performed easily, often without concentrating too deeply. Lets go back to the same example. You are typing an article, but this time you dont have to think about where the keys are一you just type them automatically. Your typing speed is getting faster and faster, and youre able to talk to your friends without concentrating on the keyboard. Of course, typing errors may more frequently occur. The professor takes one example to illustrate the difference between the conscious and unconscious competence. explain how this example is related to the reading passage. Competence is the ability to perform a specific job well. It has two stages: the conscious and unconscious. Conscious competence is the first stage of learning which requires great concentration when demonstrating a skill. For example, when you start to learn typing, you have to concentrate on each key you hit. You dont want others to bother you and sometimes you have to stop when you talk to others. As a result though, your typing has few mistakes. However, when it comes to the second stage of learning, people have already mastered the skill and no longer concentrate as deeply. For r example, you dont have to look at the keyboard when you are typing an article because the skill has become second nature. So you can type faster th