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DOI:10.7763/IJIET.2011.V1.24 - Corpus ID: 59938173
@article{Gilakjani2011TheRB, title={The Relationship between L2 Reading Comprehensionand Schema Theory: A Matter of Text Familiarity}, author={Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani and Seyedeh Masoumeh Ahmadi}, journal={International Journal of Information and Education Technology}, year={2011}, pages={142-149}, url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:59938173}}- Abbas Pourhosein Gilakjani, S. M. Ahmadi
- Published 2011
- Linguistics, Education
- International Journal of Information and Education Technology
Readers construct meaning from clues found in a text which is related to the use of background knowledge in understanding the content of the passage. Reading is an interactive process in which readers construct a meaningful representation of text using their schemata. Schema theory describes the process by which readers combine their own background knowledge with the information in a text to comprehend that text. All readers carry different schemata (background information). This is an…
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