Assignment Part A
PART A
A Schema-Theoretic View of Reading in English as a Second Language in Malaysian Primary Schools
1. Schema Theory and Reading Comprehension (4 pages)
Introduction
A major way to learn English is by reading. Reading ability is a basic and significant criterion to improve one’s English level. An important role in the process of reading is schema where there is a great number of research theory has been conducted and the achievements have shown that the theory is useful in helping to improve student’s reading ability. Schema also is the prior knowledge gained through experiences stored in student’s mind.
What is schema?
A schema (plural schemata) is how a reader perceived or understands the text from their reading based on their own background knowledge or their point of view on the surroundings. Their understanding on reading is not basically from the individual words alone but also to understand the message from the sentence, paragraph or even the whole article would convey.
Barlett has develop the first construct of the schema in 1920’s, but even he has the problem in putting it into solid theoretical form, which may explain the 50 years lag in having it in the mainstream cognitive psychology apart from the fact that behaviorism was the fad in the field of psychology during that period. Barlett finally publish his book “Remembering” in 1932 but again the concept is too indistinct to put to practice.
According to Bartlett (1932), the Schema Theory first came to light; which suggests “an active organization of past reactions of past experiences, which must always be supposed to be operation in any well-adapted organics response”. Bartlett (1932) believed that our memory of discourse was not based on straight reproductions, but was constructive. This constructive process uses information from the encountered discourse, together with knowledge from past experience related to the discourse at hand to build a mental representation.
The other Schema
A Schema-Theoretic View of Reading in English as a Second Language in Malaysian Primary Schools
1. Schema Theory and Reading Comprehension (4 pages)
Introduction
A major way to learn English is by reading. Reading ability is a basic and significant criterion to improve one’s English level. An important role in the process of reading is schema where there is a great number of research theory has been conducted and the achievements have shown that the theory is useful in helping to improve student’s reading ability. Schema also is the prior knowledge gained through experiences stored in student’s mind.
What is schema?
A schema (plural schemata) is how a reader perceived or understands the text from their reading based on their own background knowledge or their point of view on the surroundings. Their understanding on reading is not basically from the individual words alone but also to understand the message from the sentence, paragraph or even the whole article would convey.
Barlett has develop the first construct of the schema in 1920’s, but even he has the problem in putting it into solid theoretical form, which may explain the 50 years lag in having it in the mainstream cognitive psychology apart from the fact that behaviorism was the fad in the field of psychology during that period. Barlett finally publish his book “Remembering” in 1932 but again the concept is too indistinct to put to practice.
According to Bartlett (1932), the Schema Theory first came to light; which suggests “an active organization of past reactions of past experiences, which must always be supposed to be operation in any well-adapted organics response”. Bartlett (1932) believed that our memory of discourse was not based on straight reproductions, but was constructive. This constructive process uses information from the encountered discourse, together with knowledge from past experience related to the discourse at hand to build a mental representation.
The other Schema
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