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Margaret Mackey – Literacy, 2025
Louise Rosenblatt's well-known concept of stance distinguishes between efferent reading (reading to take something away from the text) and aesthetic reading (reading for the experience of dwelling in the text). This article proposes a refinement to this binary, adding the concept of afferent reading. Afference, in biology, means a bringing-to, and…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship, Story Reading
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Herner Saeverot – Studies in Philosophy and Education, 2024
This article argues that Hegel's book "The Phenomenology of Spirit" can be read as a "Bildungsroman" or a theory of reception. Hegel (as he appears in this book) sets forth to educate his readers to a historical understanding. This is the article's main argument which will be split up in three parts. First, it seems that Hegel…
Descriptors: Theories, Audience Awareness, Reading Comprehension, Memory
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Alexandra List; Gala S. Campos Oaxaca; Hongcui Du; Hye Yeon Lee; Bailing Lyu – Educational Psychologist, 2024
We examine the role of culture in comprehension. Prominent theories of comprehension conceptualized the outcome of reading as learners' construction of a cognitive representation of texts. We emphasize that such representation reflects not only texts' content, but also individuals' understandings of the real world, as described in texts. We…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Thinking Skills, Reading Comprehension, Reading Materials
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Nguyen, Hong-Nguyen – Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2020
It is commonly assumed that skills involved in reading poetry, such as decoding and assessing the poem, scanning for details arise in social relations with others, which makes reading social. However, this is social in a weak sense because these new accomplishments result from people working together. Using an alternative theoretical framework…
Descriptors: Poetry, Reading Comprehension, Elementary School Students, Reader Text Relationship
Allen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
With increased availability of information in modern societies, individuals are often faced with complex decisions regarding how to integrate and judge the veracity of available information. Generally, these issues have been approached using computational techniques to "detect" and "reduce" the spread of information across…
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Misconceptions, Discourse Analysis, Reader Text Relationship
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Chen, Xiaobin; Meurers, Detmar – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2019
How can we identify authentic reading material that matches the learner's proficiency and fosters their language development? Traditionally, this involves assigning a one-dimensional label to the text that identifies the grade or proficiency level of the learners that the text is intended for. Such an approach is inadequate given that both the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Proficiency, Readability
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Lysaker, Judith – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2018
In this article, I consider expanding meaningfulness in literacy research by exploring the possibilities offered by a relational perspective on literacy and its study. An interdisciplinary relational perspective is outlined and used to rethink what happens when we engage in reading and writing. Questions guiding this exploration include: What…
Descriptors: Literacy, Educational Research, Reading Comprehension, Reader Text Relationship
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Catts, Hugh W.; Kamhi, Alan G. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2017
Purpose: In this initial article of the clinical forum on reading comprehension, we argue that reading comprehension is not a single ability that can be assessed by one or more general reading measures or taught by a small set of strategies or approaches. Method: We present evidence for a multidimensional view of reading comprehension that…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Ability, Reading Achievement, Reading Strategies
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Lupo, Sarah M.; Strong, John Z.; Conradi Smith, Kristin – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2019
Many teachers feel that students should not struggle with text; instead, they should read easier texts in order to learn from them and make adequate growth in reading. In turn, teachers might use easier or leveled texts as a solution or a graphic novel or multimodal version to differentiate text reading and to motivate and engage reluctant…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Misconceptions
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Compton, Donald L.; Pearson, P. David – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
This special issue of "JREE" ["Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness"] features studies from three of the teams (Barnes, Stuebing, Fletcher, Barth, & Francis; Language and Reading Research Consortium, Arthur, & Davis; LaRusso et al.) supported by the Institute of Education Sciences--Reading for Understanding…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Predictor Variables, Evidence Based Practice, Reader Text Relationship
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Beach, Richard – Dialogic Pedagogy, 2017
This article describes high school students' responses to events in the novel, "The Things They Carried," leading to their collaborative rewriting to create their own narrative versions of these events. It draws on "enactivist" theory of languaging, an approach to language that focuses on its use as social actions to enact and…
Descriptors: Revision (Written Composition), Personal Narratives, High School Students, Reader Response
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Francois, Chantal; Hood, Mia – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2021
Purpose: Scholars who advocate for equity-oriented educational practices have argued that the accountability era in the USA, now in place for two decades, has failed in its intended goal to improve student performance for traditionally marginalized student populations. This study aims to use a sociocultural lens to trace how a century-old…
Descriptors: Reading Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Standardized Tests, Accountability
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Ensar, Ferhat – Educational Research and Reviews, 2015
Schema is one of the most common terms used for classifying and constructing knowledge. Therefore, a schema is a pre-planned set of concepts. It usually contains social information and is used to represent chain of events, perceptions, situations, relationships and even objects. For example, Kant initially defines the idea of schema as some…
Descriptors: Text Structure, Reading Comprehension, Knowledge Representation, Concept Mapping
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Snow, Catherine; O'Connor, Catherine – Journal of Education, 2016
One reaction to the Common Core State Standards is a new emphasis on "close reading," an approach to teaching comprehension that requires students to extract meaning from text by examining how language is used in a passage. The intent is to strengthen their ability to learn from complex text independently and thus enhance college and…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Reading Comprehension, Difficulty Level, Reading Instruction
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Woodruff, Amanda H.; Griffin, Robert A. – Texas Journal of Literacy Education, 2017
A fresh look at the reader response theory to enhance student comprehension through meaningful interactions with literature, this paper explores the instructional implications of a reader response approach in secondary classrooms and examines its role in fostering students' critical reading and thinking skills. The approach promotes transaction…
Descriptors: Reader Response, Secondary School Students, Reading Comprehension, Reading Improvement
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