Activating Schemata.docx

ACTIVATING SCHEMATA Think of a communicative event (out of your experience) similar to that in activity 2 in which you had to resort different schemata to make sense of the what you hear, saw or read. When I was a child I had a schema about mammals, I thought every mammal lived on the ground, for example, dogs, cats, elephants, lions, etc. Then I went to a beach near my house, in Lurín, and I saw some dolphins jumping out of the sea, I liked them very much immediately. Time after that, I learned in school that they were mammals; it was a surprise for me to know that they are not fish so I changed my schema: not all mammals live on land, and not all the animals which live in the sea are fish.

Lacey Lisbeth Conde Carhuancho