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Publication details [#30538]

Nassaji, Hossein. 2002. Schema Theory and Knowledge-Based Processes in Second Language Reading Comprehension: A Need for Alternative Perspectives. Language Learning 52 (2) : 439.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

knowledge | L2-acquisition | reading comprehension

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0023-8333

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This paper argues that a construction-integration model of text comprehension, applied to second language reading comprehension, provides a fundamentally different and more comprehensive account than schema theory of the role of knowledge and knowledge-based processes.