An example of proactive facilitation would be:

Question

a) learning piano first, which may help a student later learn conducting.
b) learning the wrong spelling of a name first, which later creates difficulty in learning the correct spelling.
c) learning Spanish first, which may help an English-speaking student learn Italian (a language similar to Spanish).
d) learning Spanish, which may help an English-speaking student better understand English.

Answer 1

c Proactive facilitation refers to the increased ability to learn new information (Italian) based on the presences of previously acquired information (Spanish).