This article reviews over-extension of analogical strategies in text comprehension tasks.
While considerable progress has been made in the understanding of how over-extension of
analogical strategies are involved in text comprehension and solution of algebra word problems,
relatively limited number of research has been focused on some instructional effects on the
over-extension of analogy in text comprehension and solution of word problems.In this
article,neessity of further instructional studies to tackle this issue was stressed