| Schema Theory | ||||||||||||||||||
| DEFINITION: Schema is one's knowledge based on prior learning and experience. |
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| How can teachers activate & build students' schema? | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teachers can ask display and referential questions Teachers can ask closed and open questions |
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| Recommended Online Articles about Schema Theory | ||||||||||||||||||
| Helping ESL Students Become Better Readers: Schema Theory Applications and Limitations by Nigel Scott, Internet TESOL Journal | ||||||||||||||||||
| Schema Theory of Learning, LinguaLinks | ||||||||||||||||||
| What is Reading?, The University of Arizona, College of Humanities | ||||||||||||||||||