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Abstract

The current study aimed to investigate the effect of exercises employing a broad external focus of attention on learning the dribbling skill in handball among fifth-grade primary school students at Al-Mukhtar Primary School for Boys, affiliated with the Directorate of Education in Eastern Baghdad. The research problem lies in the fact that students, while performing basic skills, often fail to attend to external stimuli accompanying the technical execution of the game. As a team sport, handball involves multiple distractors such as opponents, court dimensions, lines, and technical rules, which may negatively impact performance levels, lead to wasted effort and time, and undermine the educational goals of the curriculum. Therefore, it is essential to develop students 'attentional processes through targeted exercises integrated into instructional units related to the skills under investigation. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher employed an experimental method using two groups (experimental and control). The experimental group consisted of 10 students who received training using the external focus of attention method, while the control group (10 students) learned through the traditional instructional approach. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyze the data. The results revealed that the experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in learning the dribbling skill. Based on these findings, the researcher recommends adopting alternative attentional strategies to enhance the learning of basic handball skills. and this achieves one of the sustainable development goals of the United Nations in Iraq which is (Quality Education)

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