Comprehension and Learning

Frank Smith was born and grew up in England. After a period in the Royal Navy he spent ten years travelling widely in Europe and Asia, as a newspaper reporter and magazine editor, before his concern with language and learning took him to undergraduate studies at the University of Western Australia. His graduate work was done at the Centre for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in psycholinguistics in 1967, and he has been involved in psychological and educational research ever since.