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Mukuni, Kizito; Asante, Douglas; Almunive, Wejdan – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2021
Student engagement in online learning is an essential component of course design. To ensure that students are engaged in the course, various strategies can help students interact with the content. This study focuses on determining gender differences in learner perspectives on how engaging learner-content interactions can be in an online learning…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Reader Text Relationship, Online Courses, Electronic Learning
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Peter Dixon; Marisa Bortolussi – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
We argue that to understand how readers process narrative, it is necessary to distinguish between psychological stance (i.e., how the narrator evaluates events and characters) and physical perspective (i.e., the angle of view from which events are described). Although these are metaphorically related, the cognitive processes that produce such a…
Descriptors: Perspective Taking, Literary Genres, Perception, Reader Text Relationship
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Zondi, Nompumelelo B. – Education as Change, 2020
Although viewed (and dismissed) by many as primarily a tool for communication, language (and literature) cannot be understood only in relation to "what" it communicates. A study of "how" it is shaped uncovers the social forces that provide its broad and complex template in the acts of reading and writing. This article focuses…
Descriptors: African Languages, Literature, Blacks, Authors
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Brendler, Beth M. – Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 2014
Drawing on and reexamining theories on gender and literacy, derived from research performed between 1974 and 2002, this qualitative study explored the gender assumptions and expectations of Language Arts teachers in a graduate level adolescent literature course at a university in the Midwestern United States. The theoretical framework was…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Expectation, Language Arts, Teacher Attitudes