Abstract: Learning from examples has been studied by many researchers,many problems need to be studied .The relationships between the domain-specific knowledge and the self-explanation strategies were examined.The conclusions of the experimental research were ws follows:(1).The subjects of the high domain-specific knowledge preferred to apply the explanatory strategies of finding meaning and establishing the relationships between the new and old knowledge,while the ones of the low domain-specific knowledge were inclined to use the syntactic processing strategy ;(2).The subjects of the high domain-specific knowledgeresolved predicament with explanatory strategies when they monitored understanding failure,while the subjects of the low domain-specific knowledge resolved predicamentwith the syntactic processing strategy .

Key words: Learning from examples, self-explanation strategy , high domain-specific knowlegdge, low domain-specific knowledge