Learning Skills in English

Whereas schools appropriately make the basic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics a high priority, skills in learning, reasoning, and general problem solving–including the more sophisticated aspects of reading and English–are less emphasized or neglected. Thus, the burgeoning research on cognition fills an important need: to understand the describe these skills with the precision that would make it possible to teach them and assess their acquisition. This book is organized by a classification of cognitive skills into three groups: intelligence and reasoning, knowledge acquisition, and problem solving. Although we recognize that there are features common to these areas, as well as important relations between them, these categories serve present purposes in reflecting attention to the three central themes of discussions.