1. Reading skills Nazia , Rabia khan, Zaiba, Hiba and Nadia.
7th semester English department Sardar bahadur khan women
university quetta 17 june 2015
2. The Nature of Reading
3. The Schema Theory
4. Anderson and Pearsons Schema Theoretic View
5. Schema: Anderson: Every act of comprehension involves ones
knowledge of the world as well
6. Interactive Reading Model: Developed by David E.Rumelhart in
1997 Describes a model of the reading process and the way
linguistic elements are processed and interpreted by the brain
7. How it Works? Use of both knowledge of word structure and
background knowledge to interpret the text they read.
8. Types of processing: Surface Structure Processing. Deep
Structure Processing.
9. Bottom-up processing
10. Top-down processing
11. Difference between the bottom up processing and top down
processing: