Mental practice (or motor imagery) involves visualizing actions, to improve your ability to perform them. For example, to learn how to perform moves in your favorite sport, you can rehearse these moves by visualizing yourself performing them. Mental practice can be a beneficial technique to use in various domains, so it’s worthwhile to learn …
When you learn a new language, it’s important to get a lot of exposure to it. One of the best ways to do this is by watching movies and TV shows in your target language. In general, it’s better for you to watch foreign-language videos with subtitles, rather than without them. However, this gives rise …
The stages of learning model is a psychological framework which explains how people become more competent when learning a skill. According to this model, as people learn a skill, they advance up a hierarchy of competence, which includes four main levels of competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence. Each of …
Expanding your vocabulary is an important but difficult aspect of learning a new language. One way to make it easier is to use color-coding techniques, which can facilitate the vocabulary acquisition process. In the following article, you will learn why color-coding improves your memorization abilities, and see how you can implement it in your …