An Explanatory Analysis of Teaching and Learning Process of Wok Handling Skill

Abstract

Receiving advice from an instructor often accelerates the process of mastering a skilled motion, and this implies that a piece of advice functions as a trigger that introduces a structural change into how the learner performs the motion. Taking a basic motion of wok handling as an example, this research observes several actual processes of learning it with advice, and characterizes the processes based on the sequence of advice and how the motion performance changes along it. As a result, it is found that the process differs among learners and that the instructor determines the set of advice to give based not only on the observable characteristics of the current motion performance but also on the history of the interaction with the learner.