Strategic processing of text.

Schemas for a subject domain can make reading new information about that domain easier. It was hypothesized that when students read about familiar topics, they use a reinstatement- and-integration strategy in which the familiar knowledge they encounter is retrieved from long-term memory, along with some information about the original context in which those facts were learned. Two experiments that focused on the integration of knowledge from different sources were conducted to investigate whether readers use such a strategy when reading expository text about recently learned topics. The proposed strategy is consistent with much of the observed data