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Schema Theory and Knowledge‐Based Processes in Second Language Reading Comprehension: A Need for Alternative Perspectives
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Despite major theoretical developments in second language (L2) reading comprehension over the last two decades, many attempts at explaining the role of knowledge in comprehension are still made almost exclusively in the context of schema theory. I first review and critically analyze the major assumptions underlying schema theory. Then, I consider an alternative perspective, a construction‐integration model of text comprehension, and discuss how this perspective, when applied to L2 reading comprehension, offers a fundamentally different and more comprehensive account of the role of knowledge and knowledge‐based processes that L2 researchers had previously tried to explain within schema‐theoretic principles.
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Background knowledge activation can lessen cognitive load in reading.
“It has been argued, however, that the cognitive load can be lessened by activation of the background knowledge that readers bring to the text (Carrell, 1988;Ellis, 2001;Nassaji, 2002;Pulido, 2004).”
From The effects of cultural familiarity on reading comprehension (2009) · cites this paper as Nassaji, 2002
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Erten, İ. H., & Razı, S. (2009) · Reading in a Foreign Language · doi:10.64152/10125/66632 · Cited by 93
“It is also called abstract schema ( Nassaji, 2002; Oller, 1995), story schema (Mandler, 1984), or linguistic schema (Ketchum, 2006).”
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- Authors
- Nassaji, H.
- Affiliations
- University of Victoria (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Nassaji, Hossein
- ORCID
- Nassaji, Hossein
- Venue
- Language Learning
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-06
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 439-481
- ISSN
- 0023-8333 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9922
- OpenAlex
- W2112921747
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Language Learning (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Second Language Acquisition and Learning
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Keywords
- schema theory, second language reading comprehension, knowledge-based processes, construction-integration model, text comprehension
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