Luokat: Kaikki - material - strategies - integration - comprehension

jonka Robert Williams 9 vuotta sitten

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The Reading Process

The text discusses the significance of prior knowledge and schemata in the reading process. Schemata function as mental filing systems that help in organizing and retrieving information, thus facilitating comprehension.

The Reading Process

The Reading Process

Cooper and Petrosky

"in reading, the brain supplies more information than it receives from the eye about the text."

Ground Zero

nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, preposition, interjection
Parts of speech
Words/Lexis
Phonetic Alphabet

A Cognitive View

Maintain comprehension
Regulate
Monitor
Flexible use of strategies
Integration of existing knowledge

Schemata operate similarly in reading. They act as a kind of mental filing system from which the individual can retrieve existing knowledge and into which new information can be filed.

Prior Knowledge and Schema Theory

Cognitive psychologists use the word schema to describe how people organize the raw data of everyday experiences into meaningful patterns.
What a person already knows about a topic probably the single most influential factor with respect to what he or she will learn.
Prior knowledge can cover a wide range of ideas, skills, and attitudes.

Passage 3 pg. 26

The importance of the second passage is simple. The demonstration o "Prior Knowledge" is sufficient to comprehending.

Passage 2 pg. 25

The second passage illustrates the importance of activating appropriate prior knowledge. Failure to do so can lead to confusion and misinterpretation of the text. Seeing it from a prisoner and wrestler point of view seems similar to each other.

Making Connenction between Theory and Practice.

There were no title is is provided in order to demonstrate the difficulty in comprehending material for which no prior knowledge, although available, has been activated.
Emphasizes that prior knowledge must be activated inorder to be useful.