Since implementation of a psychology of teaching and learning should assist students to achieve optimally in reading, reading teachers need to be well versed in diverse psychologies which may be stressed in the curriculum. This paper first outlines 10 principles of learning emphasized by educational psychologists upon which psychologists tend to…

Explores the mismatch between pedagogical intentions and learner outcomes and argues for learner centeredness as a central (yet relative) concept. Ways in which the relationship between teachers and learners and teaching and learning can be strengthened, e.g., experiential content, language content, and learning process, are explored, and examples…