Journal 8

Topic
: Does a schema activate your reading process? Talk about your case episode how schema helps your reading or no schema retards your reading.

My answer :
I’ve recently been reading a book, ‘Mother tongue’ written by Bill Bryson in English. This book is about English language. It is quite fun to read. But knowledge such as professional term, like phonemic, morpheme, which I learned while I was studying English Education, really helps me to comprehend the book. Although I cannot comprehend the whole text 100% accurately, without knowing such technical term, I may not be able to understand the text more smoothly.
In addition, I’m reading additional material of PLLT. Those two texts are related. Therefore, schema I have built while I was reading PLLT are very helpful to read the complement material. For instance, there is no exact explanation of Form-focused Instruction in the added text. However, as the definition is in PLLT, I can read the printed material more easily as I learned what FFI is from PLLT.