Situation Models and Levels of Coherence
Toward a Definition of Comprehension| By: | Isabelle Tapiero |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780805855500 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781136679353 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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The mental representation of what one reads is called a "situation model" or a "mental model." The process of reading causes an interaction of the new knowledge with what is already known. Though a number of theories and models have been proposed to describe this interaction, Tapiero proposes a new model that assumes a variety of storage areas to p