How Word Recognition Is Affected by Schema Activation: An Investigation Through Listening

Word recognition is of fundamental importance to listening. This research looks into the effect schema-activation has on word recognition during listening. The result shows that, compared with the control group who does not activate relevant schema before listening, the schemaactivation experimental group can not only recognize more words, but can better identify words whose sounds are varied during speech stream, discern efficiently the word among the candidates containing a similar phoneme, minimize the chances of refusing to accept a word due to its incompatibility with already-constructed interpretation and is less likely to miss a word due to concentration on the previous material.

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