Schema-Directed Processes in Language Comprehension. Technical Report No. 50 / Richard C. Anderson.

This paper develops the thesis that the knowledge a person possesses has a potent influence on what he or she will learn and remember from exposure to discourse. After outlining some assumptions about the characteristics of the structures (schemata) in which existing knowledge is packaged, a theory...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Anderson, Richard C.
Corporate Authors:	Illinois Univ., Urbana. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc., Cambridge, MA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Center for the Study of Reading, Bolt, Beranek, and Newman
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1977.
Subjects:	Cognitive Processes. Comprehension. Elementary Secondary Education. Language Research. Learning Processes. Memory. Prose. Psychological Studies. Reading Comprehension. Reading Processes. Reading Research. Theories.