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Live Text Access.

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Training
for real time intralingual subtitlers.

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The introduction to this Unit
has already explained what velotyping is.

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And also what the psycho-cognitive skills are 
that a velotypist must possess.

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This video lecture is aimed
to let you know about the Effort Model,

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at the basis of the skill
of listening and speaking at the same time.

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And at letting you learn the skill
of listening and typing at the same time

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in two specific contexts.

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Where verbatim accuracy is required,

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you will learn
to listen and repeat at the same time.

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Where sensatim accuracy is required,

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you will learn to listen and reformulate
at the same time.

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This is the agenda
of this presentation.

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I will first recall
the skills of the velotypist.

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Then, I will concentrate
on the so-called effort model,

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which is at the basis
of simultaneous interpreting,

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a mental activity,
very close to real time subtitling.

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 I will finally focus on shadowing,
a manifold exercise,

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you will be requested to do
along the course

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to develop, reinforce,
and finally maintain this skill

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in two different contexts:
verbatim subtitling and sensatim subtitling.

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As you have seen,

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a velotypist has to do
many things at the same time.

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In this Element, we will deal
with the Psychocognitive skill

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of listening and typing
at the same time,

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which is the bulk of the respeaking skills.

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In particular, for a velotypist
to become a professional in the field,

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he or she has to first develop
the capacity of doing two things at a time.

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Listening and understanding the speaker
while typing,

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so that real-time subtitles are produced.

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While you can develop this competence by the time
thanks to ad hoc exercises.

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you may be interested in understanding
the rationale behind it,

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the effort model,
and then shadowing as a way to develop it.

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We have talked about the Effort Model,
what is it?

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In 1985, Daniel Gile proposes
the so-called <i>Modèle d'efforts</i>,

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or Effort Model,

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based on observing the mistakes
of trainees in simultaneous interpreting.

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Daniel Gile realises that trainees
do mistakes that are so banal

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the reason for these mistakes
cannot be a poor command of the language.

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He understands
that this is due to other reasons,

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mainly that our brain is to be trained

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if we want it do more than one
non-automatic thing at the same time.

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Our brain has the capacity to process
only one non-automatic process at a time.

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To understand this,

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it is important to know
that mental activities can be of 3 types.

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Automatic,
like that at basis of breathing.

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Semi-automatic,
like that at the basis of walking,

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And non-automatic, like that
at the basis of actually listening

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or – guess! – repeating or reformulating
what somebody has just said.

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The effort model is thought
for Simultaneous interpreting,

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but it can be easily adapted
to real-time subtitling.

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Adapting Gile’s notions
o real-time subtitling,

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while typing,
we mainly do 4 non-automatic actions
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Listening to the speaker
and understanding,

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which implies we analyze the waves
he or she produces and turn them into meanings.

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Memory,

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which is the capacity to temporarily store
meaning before we do something with it.

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Production is the fact
of producing sentences

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that need to both adequately render
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and being typed correctly.

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Coordination is the fact
of monitoring one’s performance,

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so that a balance is found
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Now, these efforts require
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As said,

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we need to train our brain to find
a balance between these four efforts.

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As long as our processing capacity
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to carry on these mental activities
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we then do a good job.

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If it is not,
because of fatigue or other reasons,

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we may experience breakdowns
in one of the activities,

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with negative consequences
on the quality of the subtitles.

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In particular, a good performance
is possible when the following conditions occur.

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First of all,
the speaker should speak properly,

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not too fast, with a clear voice
and not too technically.

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Then it is important the velotypist
knows the topic or has studied it.

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Moreover, the velotypist must work
in a well-equipped environment

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and with working turns
which are not too stressful.

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And finally, the interaction
with the machine should be at its utmost.

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In case one
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more processing capacity is required

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in one of the four efforts
to bridge the gap.

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This may cause a breakdown
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which, in the end, go to the detriment
of the quality of the subtitles.

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In particular,
if the speaker is challenging,

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it will be harder for the velotypist
to listen and understand.

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If the topic is not well mastered
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it will be harder to remember
what the speaker says.

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If the velotypist is not in good mental
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it will be harder to produce
coherent subtitles.

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Finally, if the interaction
with the machine is not good,

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coordination breakdowns may occur.

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In the next video lectures,

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we will see
how to cope with each of these situations

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that may cause bad performance.

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In this video lecture,

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we will try and make sure that, in good
conditions, you are going to perform well.

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Moreover, we will try to see
how it is possible to semi-automate

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some of the simultaneous, non-automatic
actions which are required in velotyping

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to reduce the processing capacity
needed for each of them.

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One way to go for that is shadowing,
which we will see in the next section.

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In this second section,

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we will deal with the notion of shadowing
as a tool to develop

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and semi-automate the psycho-cognitive skill
of listening and typing at the same time.

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Shadowing means you listen to a speech
and you repeat it.

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There is no need to involve
the software for the moment.

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However, you should know
what it means to repeat.

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To our understanding,
there are four types of shadowing.

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Litteratim shadowing, verbatim shadowing,
sensatim shadowing and signatim shadowing.

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The difference lies
in the degree to which you should repeat
the source text,

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the speech
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Litteratim shadowing means you repeat
every sound you hear of the speaker.

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Every speaker,
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makes use of given and recurrent
features of orality when speaking.

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This means that you should repeat
not just words,

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but any of them,

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even words
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as well as recurrent examples of orality.

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These may be fillers

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like "well", "you know",
"kind of", "you see", etc.

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Extra sounds like "uhm", "er", "mh", etc.

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Interjections
like "Uh!", "Ah!", "Ow!", "Ack!" etc.

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Barbarisms, or words

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that each of us pronounces
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like "heyyy", "naaa", "wassuup", etc.

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Verbatim shadowing means

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that you should repeat every distinct,
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as uttered by the speaker,
mistakes included.

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This means that you should repeat
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like "house", "government", "Spain", etc.

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Grammar items like "the", "when", "for", etc.

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Acronyms like "GDP", "NCRA", "OWL", etc.

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Foreign words and expressions,

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like "ad nauseam",
"bon voyage", "gnocchi", etc.

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Sensatim shadowing is a bit more complex
and less precise as a notion.

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It means you should repeat every single
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a meaning being
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a clause, or a sentence.

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You can either repeat these words
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or re-express them by using other words,
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For example,
you can make use of synonyms,

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both horizontal synonyms,
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and vertical synonyms,
like "flower" instead of "anemone".

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You can also reformulate the utterance.

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For example, you can say "yes"
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or "we" instead of "you and I".

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Or you can strategically omit
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that not necessarily add something
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For example, instead of saying:

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"Carlo talks
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you can simply say:
"Carlo talks to explain this".

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Finally,
signatim shadowing is the form of shadowing

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that is aimed at repeating
every single sign,

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meaning any meaningful occurrence
in a speech event

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that adds information to the ideal reader

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of the transcription
of signatim shadowing.

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This means not just the single sentences
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but also relevant punctuation marks,

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like comma, period, question mark etc.,
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Signatim also means paraverbal events,

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like: the tone of voice,
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as in "good morning period [he shouts]".

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Signatim finally means
non-verbal events,

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like applauses,
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as in "good morning period [applauses]".

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In this video lecture we have introduced
the main competence of the velotypist,

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the psycho-cognitive skill of listening
to the ST and simultaneously repeating it.

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In particular,
we have dealt with two important aspects:

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a theoretical one,
that is the Effort Model,

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and a more practical one, shadowing.

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The effort model is at the basis
of this cognitive process

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that involves doing more things
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We have seen that balancing the efforts
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is always needed to avoid breakdowns.

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One way to go for that is trying
to semi-automate these actions.

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To do so,
shadowing is the exercise to start with.

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It consists in listening
a speech and repeating it,

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either litteratim or sound for sound,

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verbatim or word for word,

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sensatim or meaning for meaning

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and signatim or sign for sign.

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In the homework session,
we will see how to do this in practice.