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Peer reviewedWoods, Claire A. – English Education, 1986
Discusses the concepts of play and imagination and how these shape personal development and the knowledge gained through experience with reading and writing. (SRT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, English Curriculum
Peer reviewedGambell, Trevor J. – English Quarterly, 1986
Provides a background of response theory, two Canadian perspectives on response theory, a description of transactional response theory and response-centered curriculum, a discussion of the concepts of participant and spectator roles in literature and of the idea of narration and storying as literature, and a discussion of analysis and criticism.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, English Curriculum, English Instruction, Literary Criticism
Peer reviewedBeach, Richard; Wendler, Linda – Research in the Teaching of English, 1987
Compares inferences about story characters' behavior, perceptions, and goals made by eighth graders, eleventh graders, college freshmen, and college seniors. Concludes that from early adolescence to young adulthood, readers shift from conceptions of characters in terms of immediate surface feelings and behaviors to conceptions in terms of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Characterization, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
