问答题
Practice gets a raw deal in the field of applied linguistics.Most lay-people simplyassumes that practice is a necessary condition for language learning without giving【M1】_______the concept much further thought, but many applied linguists eschew the term practice.For some, the word conjuresup images of mind-numbing drills over the sweatshops【M2】_______of foreign language learning, while for others it means fun and games to appeasing【M3】_______students on Friday afternoons.Practice is by no means a dirty word in other domainsof human endeavor, however.Parents dutifully take their kids to soccer practice, and【M4】_______professional athletes dutifully show up for team practice, sometimes even withrecent injuries.Parents make their kids practice their piano skills at home, andworld’s most famous performers of classical music often practice for many hours a day,【M5】_______even if it makes their fingers hurt.If even idolized, spoil, and highly paid celebrities【M6】_______are willing to put up with practice, why not language learners, teachers, or researchers?The concept of second language practice remains are markably unexamined from a【M7】_______theoretical point of view.Misgivings and misunderstandings about practice aboundand are often rooted in even deeper misunderstandings about what it is that languagelearners to supposed to learn.The study of skill acquisition is an important area within【M8】_______cognitive psychology.Researchers in that area have documented the acquisition ofskills in a wide variety of domains, from algebra, geometry, and computerprogramming to leam how to drive a car or how to roll cigars.Increasingly, they【M9】_______also employ neuroimaging and other neurological data to document how differentskills and different stages in the acquisition of the same skill are representedin the brain.Researchers study skill acquisition processes all agree that reaction【M10】_______time and error rate decline gradually as a function of practice with a given task.《问题》:【M7】