A Comparison of Content Schemata and Textual Schemata or the Process of Parachuting.

Bowman, Margie

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A Comparison of Content Schemata and Textual Schemata or the Process of Parachuting.

Bowman, Margie

Reading World, v21 n1 p14-22 Oct 1981

Examines the background of schema theory and discusses the contention that content schemata is more important to the reader than textual schemata. Concludes that the more useful schemata is determined by the context rather than one schemata type always being more important than the other. (FL)

Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Memory, Reading Processes, Reading Research, Recall (Psychology)

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