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Explain schemata


Schemata is an effective strategy used by good readers.  Good readers in fact interact with the text; they have their own personal expectations. They create meaning by constructing or generating relationships between what they read and what they already know.

Hence, a prior knowledge about general things highly influence to understand better about the text.

So, readers have networks of prior understanding about a topic, theorists call it schemata. In the process of reading, they add those networks and filling in some of the gaps with what they know.

 

 

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To sum up, schema theory suggest that, in creating meaning, good readers rely also on their previous knowledge to shed light on the new topics.

 

 

 

 

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