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Dingmin, Wu – Guidelines, 1992
The reader's knowledge about how a message is woven into discourse plays an important role in reading comprehension. This article first reviews reasons for student difficulties in comprehension, sentence groups, and sense units and then presents a basic discourse framework and its applications for analyzing text passages. (Contains two…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Decoding (Reading), Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedCowan, Michael A. – College Teaching, 1994
A theory of literary interpretation that treats the reader's interaction with text as a form of conversation is discussed, and related teaching techniques are described. The approach uses four steps: (1) articulating initial responses; (2) pursuing deeper understanding of the text; (3) interaction with the text; and (4) identifying possibilities…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, College Instruction, Discourse Analysis, Educational Strategies
Madden, Thomas R. – 1986
The literary theorist Terry Eagleton believes that literary study is the study of human discourse. To build on his idea for use in the classroom, it must first be assumed that literature constitutes a dialogue between the work (and its author) and the reader. The dialogue process can be introduced in a 2- to 4-week unit through a cluster of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Critical Reading, Dialogs (Literary), Discourse Analysis
