Learning is no longer regarded as knowledge acquisition but as knowledge construction;therefore, learner is not a passive recipient but an active constructor. In generative and elaborative learning process, the learner's existing knowledge is considered to be modified while it is used to construct a meaning from the text. Therefore, the focus in learning is on generating relations, rath-er than on storing information. This paper aims to draw the outlines of the main ideas of generative learning and their related con-cepts and theoretical significance.