Schemata and readingcomprehension Schemata and readingcomprehension

Autor: José Luiz Meurer
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Ilha do Desterro, Vol 0, Iss 25/26, Pp 167-184 (2008)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0101-4846
2175-8026
Popis: At school, and also after formal schooling takes place, the acquisition of new knowledge is in great measure dependent on reading comprehension. The total task of understanding written discourse depends on the distribution of information in the printed text, and on the voluntary and automatic activation of information or 'schemata' in the reader's mind. Thus, what different readers 'comprehend' of a given text may vary considerably. Reading comprehension is a function of the nature of the text itself and of the extent to which the reader possesses, uses, and integrates pertinent background knowledge, or schemata. At school, and also after formal schooling takes place, the acquisition of new knowledge is in great measure dependent on reading comprehension. The total task of understanding written discourse depends on the distribution of information in the printed text, and on the voluntary and automatic activation of information or 'schemata' in the reader's mind. Thus, what different readers 'comprehend' of a given text may vary considerably. Reading comprehension is a function of the nature of the text itself and of the extent to which the reader possesses, uses, and integrates pertinent background knowledge, or schemata.
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