%0 Journal Article
%T WHAT ARE SKILLS? SOME FUNDAMENTAL REFLECTIONS
%A FINN EGIL T£¿NNESSEN
%J L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature
%D 2012
%I IAIMTE
%X When the concept of ¡®skill¡¯ is used in reading and writing research or more generally in linguis-tic research, it is rarely made the subject of detailed and precise definitions or reflections. The present article is a theoretical contribution that consists mainly in reflections on the type of phenomenon that ¡®skill¡¯ represents. Philosophically, the account is based above all on Aristotle¡¯s views, according to which ¡®skill¡¯ is characterised as a potentiality. Psychologically, this article expresses the opinion that the only way to describe, understand and explain ¡®skill¡¯ is by combining behaviourism and cognitivism
%K Behaviourism
%K Cognitive Psychology
%K Skill
%K Automaticity
%K Awareness
%K Potentiality
%K Tacit Knowledge
%K Linguistic Meaning
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