ABSTRACT
J. S. Bruner refers to several general properties of a skill. The most obvious of these is the performance itself, which has the general property of being strategic. Other writers who have analysed strategies in problem-solving and concept-learning have used terms such as 'learning strategy' or 'strategy of acquisition'. For normal and high progress readers a function of self-correction is to maintain a meaningful context for effective decoding strategies, so that ongoing accuracy within and across stories is effected. The behaviours making up the performance strategy are continually monitored, evaluated and corrected in terms of how they fit into the overall performance. The monitoring and evaluation phases of regulation may occur in the absence of being able to do anything about a problem because of insufficient knowledge or an immature performance strategy. In analyses of skilled activity such activities are conceptualized in terms of feedback control and they have been examined both behaviourally, as in the descriptions of self-correcting, or neurophysiologically.
