Using the Internet for vocabulary development is a powerful way for students to rapidly expand their vocabularies. The Internet affords students opportunities to interact both instantaneously and multimodaly with words in different contexts. By using search engines and hyperlinks, students can immediately access textual, visual, and auditory…

Discusses reflective freewriting as a method postsecondary faculty can use to help students develop metacognitive awareness. Describes how giving students time in class to "think about thinking" promotes students' cognitive and affective development. Reviews the literature on metacognition. Describes the direct instruction used to…

Considers how many students come to hold mistaken beliefs about the learning process, thus depriving themselves of the opportunity to reason out their difficulties and discover their capabilities. Explores how students, through developing metacognitive skills, can examine misconceptions about learning and begin to acquire new habits of thoughts…