Activity 01 Schemata

Activity 01: Schemata Two types of schemata most often discussed in reading research are formal schemata and content schemata. Formal schemata are higher order structures containing knowledge of rhetorical organization structures, including knowledge of the general properties of text types and differences in genre (Carrell & Eisterhold, 1988). The other type of schema which a reader brings to a text is content schema, the knowledge relative to the content domain of the text. Content schemata themselves can be classified into different types. One which has attracted growing interest is the culture-specific content schema (Carrell, 1988; Carrell & Eisterhold, 1988). (From: Maya Khemlani David & Lynne Norazit, Selection of Reading Texts: Moving Beyond Content Schema. In Literacy Across Cultures. Spring/Summer 2000 4/1) Discuss this joke with a partner. Then identify the content & formal schemata required to fully understand the joke. Head & Feet One day a teacher was giving his class a lesson on the circulation of blood. To make the subject clearer, he said: “Now boys, look here, if I stand on my head, the blood, as you all know, will run to my head. And I shall get red in the face.” The boys agree. “Now,” continued the teacher, “what I want to know is this, how is that, when I stand on my feet, the blood doesn’t run to my feet?” the boys all sat still for a moment, then one little boy held up his hand and said, “Please, sir, it is because your feet are not empty.” Content schemata Formal schemata

Activity 01 Schemata

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