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Raphael, Taffy E. – Reading Teacher, 1986
Offers modifications to the Question Answer Relationships technique that provide (1) a clearer explanation of different sources of information for answering questions, (2) an easier format for considering developmental differences in reading and learning, and (3) an expanded use for the technique both as a tool for teachers and as a strategy for…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Learning Processes, Questioning Techniques, Reader Text Relationship

Shenkman, Harriet – Reading Psychology, 1986
Describes a metacognitive study method, LETME, designed to help students manage the entire study process by facilitating the understanding, selection, organization, retention, and analysis of information from expository text. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Processes, Metacognition, Postsecondary Education

Root, Robert L., Jr. – English Journal, 1991
Explores the interrelationship of learning, language and literature. Suggests assignments that allow students to respond like readers rather than like apprentice critics. Asserts that writing is not merely recording, and reading is not merely decoding. States that confusions about meaning and syntax disappear when writers read their own work…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Literature, Reader Response, Reader Text Relationship
Lightfoot, Martin, Ed.; Martin, Nancy, Ed. – 1988
Reflecting the influence of James Britton in the field of language and learning, this book--a collection of essays by researchers and practitioners in the area of language and learning--focuses on recent issues of language development in learning. The book contains the following 27 essays: (1) "Social Interaction as Scaffold: The Power and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition