These purposes are generally pursued in the context of classroom recitation, defined as a series of
teacher questions, each eliciting a student response and sometimes a teacher reaction to that response.
Within these recitations, students follow a series of steps (consciously or unconsciously) in order to
produce responses to the questions posed. These steps include:
* Attending to the question
* Deciphering the meaning of the question
* Generating a covert response (i.e., formulating a response in one's mind)
* Generating an overt response; and often
* Revising the response (based on teacher probing or other feedback)