海外英语（上）
海外英語（上）
해외영어（상）
Overseas English
2014年
2期
8-11
,共4页
inferring strategies%schema theory%top-down processing%bottom-up processing
Schema theory is an influential approach to text comprehension, which can account for inferring process in L 2 text reading. According to the schema theory, comprehending a text is an interactive process between the reader ’s prior knowledge (top-down processing) and the text (bottom-up processing). Both top-down and bottom-up processing are necessary for the in-ferring in reading comprehension. This paper explores how good and poor Chinese learners adopts top-down processing and bot-tom-up processing to make inferences in L2 reading, and finds some differences and similarities in using textual materials and background knowledge to make inferences in L2 reading by good and poor Chinese EFL learners respectively.
