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Download full textAdams, Marilyn Jager; Collins, Allan – 1977
This paper provides a general description of schema-theoretic models of language comprehension and examines some extensions of such models to the study of reading. The goal of schema theory is to specify the interface between the reader and the text: to specify how the reader's knowledge interacts with and shapes the information on the page and to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comprehension, Models, Prose
