Schema Theory and the importance of schema theory to reading comprehension

Linguists, cognitive psychologists, and psycholinguists have used the concept of schema (plural: schemata) to understand the interaction of key factors affecting the comprehension process.

Simply put, schema theory states that all knowledge is organized into units. Within these units of knowledge, or schemata, is stored information.

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Reading Theory as a Microcosm of the Four Skills

Introduction

In the first section of this paper we shall look at how helpful it is to treat, at a theoretical level, the four language skills separately from one another. In the second section, we shall imagine, and briefly describe, a small group of L2 learners in a specific classroom context giving a discursive commentary on how we could set about focusing on the development of the group's proficiency in reading skills.

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