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Peer reviewedMcNaughton, Stuart – Educational Psychology: An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology, 1988
Reviews research on the possible roles that errors might play in learning to read. Contrasts a productive view of errors with the view that errors are problematic to instruction, stating that the two are compatible. Concludes that errors can have both a generative and an inhibiting function depending upon instructional conditions. (GEA)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Behavioral Science Research, Educational Theories, Elementary Education
