Class about Christine NUTTALL s ideas on Reading and congtion

1. READING
Processos cognitivos da Leitura
NUTTAL and COGNITION, SCHEMA
Prof. Dr. Daniel Ferraz

2. Dynamics: Human camera: take a
photograph

3. Difficult texts...
• Are not part of your context (another
language)
• Are not part of your repertoire (another field)
• Lack of vocabulary

4. To overcome difficult texts
SHARED ASSUMPTIONS (expanding)
• Expand repertoire (read everything, not only
academic Letras texts)
• Read literature, news, media, cinema, fanfics
• Skimming + scanning
• Depending on the objetive, read for main
ideas, read for specific ideas

5. The role of schema
• VIDEO – SCHEMA AND ACCOMMODATION

6. SCHEMA THEORY
• Schema (sing) / schemata (plural) = mental
structure
• Organized
• Lived, experienced
• Formed in cognition (mental, minds)

7. • We make connections within sentences, ideas,
texts because of the SCHEMATA we have
(acquired) about that something

8. What is going on?

9. Schemata for restaurants
• You enter
• You sit
• You look at the menu (or ask for it)
• You choose
• You order
• You wait
• You eat , and or drink
• You pay
• You go

10. Pressuppositions
• Unstated, unaware
• Assumptions (automatic)
• Cultural
• Contextual
• Historical
• learned

11. Activity 1.4
• Schemata: birds,
• Lapwing = abibe

12. b. Walt Disney
Movie; WALT before Mickey

13. c. Rubber futures = exchange market, rubber
business
Rubber futures are standardized, exchange-
traded contracts in which the contract buyer
agrees to take delivery, from the seller, a specific
quantity of rubber (eg. 5000 kilograms) at a
predetermined price on a future delivery date.

14. d. Car mechanic
Belt x pump x

15. e. Puppy and adjectives
Tiny, starved, Mangy dog (sarnento)

16. Total understanding??
• Possible?

17. ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT of the reader
(or interpretations=reading)

18. ESCHER

20. READING as interaction
• With the text
• With oneself
• With author
• With language
• With context
• With filters
• With others
• With

21. Making sense of a text

22. Prediction
• Do 1.5 together

23. Approaches
• Top-down (skimming)
• Bottom-up (scanning)
• Scaffolding (with helpers)

24. Part 2 – João Alves IC