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Download full textAnderson, Richard C.; Pearson, P. David – 1984
To characterize basic processes of reading comprehension, this report focuses on how the reader's schemata, or knowledge already stored in memory, function in the process of interpreting new information and allowing it to enter and become a part of the knowledge store. The paper first traces the historical antecedents of schema theory, then…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Prior Learning, Reading Comprehension
