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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"schema theory"”.
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Schema theory, attitudes and text comprehension
… examined the hypothesis that pre-existing sexual schemata would influence what college students would learn from AIDS education materials. In one session college students completed a sexual knowledge test and attitude questionnaires; in a second session they read a 25-page informational passage on …
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Schema Theory-based Computational Approach to Support Children's Conceptual Understanding
… the thesis proposes an approach for Schema Activation and Interpersonal Communications (SAIC) to support cognitive tasks that occur when a child is learning new concepts through one-to-one interaction with a computer agent. The approach is based on schema theory that explains how …
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Cross disciplinary effects of text factors and language of recall on reading comprehension
Reading theory provides a potentially powerful means of addressing English reading deficiencies and enhancing the reading performance of English as Foreign Language (EFL) students, including those studying at tertiary level in Indonesia. One influential psycholinguistically focused reading theory …
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Enigmatic commercials: Schema distortion in television advertisements
… have begun to use commercials that employ schema distortion that make the commercial seem enigmatic to the viewer. Recently, research in communication, specifically the news media, has focused on the processes of learning and recall using schema theory; The method used 12 commercials, 6 …
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Exerciser self-image and indices of health-related physical fitness
… levels of physical fitness. Exercise self-schema theory is a social cognitive psychological theory that is uniquely capable at explaining and predicting chronic exercise behaviors. It posits that established self-images are based on cognitive generalizations about the "self" creates a very …
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Girlfriend or esposa? Cultural scenarios in translation
… translated as 'husband' and 'wife'. By using schema theory, American and Mexican cultural scenarios of marriage are developed and compared. The characteristics most important to terminological usage are determined. For Americans, the terms husband and wife indicate partners with a permanent …
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Effects of story grammar on reading comprehension of L2 readers of French
Schema theory has had a profound impact on second language reading research in the last decade. A schema-theoretic view of reading acknowledges the role of the reader as an active participant whose background knowledge allows him or her to reconstruct meaning from a text. Background knowledge is …
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A theoretically-based curriculum incorporating reading to learn and writing to learn in sixth-grade social studies
… curriculum that incorporated research related to schema theory, reading to learn theory, and writing to learn theory. Learning principles and instructional principles were derived from each theory to serve as guidelines for selecting instructional strategies from the research to be included in the …
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Are your parents to blame? Disentangling temperament, parenting style, and schemas in the development of depressive symptoms
This study examined Jeffrey Young's Schema Theory (1990; 2003) and its influence in understanding the etiological factors related to depressive symptoms. It was hypothesized that there would be significant interactions between parenting and temperament traits. It was also hypothesized that The …
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A cognitive schematic paradigm for expository essay writing in secondary schools
… adhering to this assumption, a cognitively based schematic organizer known as a cross-classification chart was tested for its effectiveness a t the planning stage of the writing process . Results were not significant in any of the three components that were evaluated; however , a post- hoc …
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A semantic network approach to second language vocabulary learning and its implementation in a computerized lexical database
… vocabulary learning incorporates semantic fields theory and frame or schema theory into the representation of vocabulary. The approach posits that new words be represented within their network of semantic and thematic relations in a network structure that reflects the associative nature of the …
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The effects of writing ability and mode of discourse on cognitive capacity engagement
… and results were interpreted in the context of schema theory to estimate the learning potential of a given mode of discourse. Also, engagement and syntactic complexity treasures were related. It was found that as words per clause increased, engagement also increased; whereas, as clauses per …
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Die aanbieding van politiek as nuusonderwerp in Sarie, Rooi Rose en Fair Lady (1994-2005)
… of departure of the online evaluation model, schema theory and agenda setting theory be considered in the selection and presentation of information to contribute to women's political knowledge acquisition. According to the first mentioned theory most people learn about politics coincidentally …
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Strategies for First-Year University ESL Students to Improve Essay Writing Skills
… in delivering lectures too. By applying Schema Theory and Stephen D. Krashen’s Monitor Model, strategies for students and teachers are professionally designed in this guidebook.</p> <p>In order to help ESL students better their command of basic writing skills, systematic writing topics …
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The effect of schema-based training on dispositional reasoning components : comparing frame-of-reference training and schema-feedback training
… behaviour and situations. Drawing on schema theory, the present study attempted to determine if dispositional reasoning could be developed in students who participated in interview training. We used two different experiments to assess the relative effectiveness of two different …
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