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Simmons, Amber M. – Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 2016
While important work has been done on assessing classroom texts and investigating classroom discourse, there is little research on teachers doing systemic functional linguistics (SFL) with students for critical ends, especially in the high school arena. This article discusses how instructional use of SFL analytic resources in subject English…
Descriptors: Critical Literacy, High School Students, English Instruction, Linguistics
Sabeti, Shari – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2012
This paper uses the example of an extra-curricular Graphic Novel Reading Group in order to explore the institutional critical reading practices that take place in English classrooms in the senior years of secondary school. Drawing on Stanley Fish's theory of interpretive communities, it questions the restrictive interpretive strategies applied to…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Novels, Classroom Environment, Educational Strategies

Murphy, Kevin – English in Education, 2003
Discusses Eric Lomax's autobiographical book "The Railway Man." Notes how it chronicles his boyhood obsession with train-spotting and the subsequent ways in which his life has been freaked by railway co-incidences. Describes how the author invited Eric Lomax to come and discuss this work with his students. (SG)
Descriptors: Authors, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction

Mann, Karen B. – Eureka Studies In Teaching Short Fiction, 2001
Proposes that literature can be examined to see how it works simultaneously as a constraint upon and liberating means for women. Discusses "Yellow Women" by Leslie Marmon Silko and "The Company of Wolves" by Angela Carter, exploring the role of a reader's context for understanding a story. (PM)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, Feminist Criticism, Higher Education

Aker, Don – Journal of Reading, 1992
Describes how a high school English teacher's belief that text contains a single, unchanging meaning evolved to an understanding that students create their own meanings through their own experiences. Discusses ways he tried (with mixed success) to provide students with the opportunity to bring their own experience to their reading. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Critical Reading, English Instruction, High Schools
Kang, Hee-Won – 1994
When reading educators encounter a student's interpretation of a text that is different than that which an author may have intended, they have to determine if such an interpretation is valid according to their criteria for students. Much of this rests with educators' conceptions of the reading process and the role of the reader in the…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, English (Second Language), Literary Criticism
Langer, Judith – 1991
The teaching of literature is not well understood in American schools, nor has there been any major change in conceptualizing secondary school literature instruction in the past 25 years. In addition, study of how students come to understand literature parallel to the study of the writing process is almost nonexistent. For the past few years,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Critical Thinking, English Instruction, Literature

Schlender, Betty-Anne – English Quarterly, 1997
Muses on and explores connections between a teacher's personal history as a reader; how she thinks about literature and about reading as a secondary English language arts teacher; and her assumptions about how high school students will, can, or should read. (PA)
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Critical Reading, English Instruction, High School Students
"Critical" Reader Response in an Urban Classroom: Creating Cultural Texts to Engage Diverse Readers.

Blake, Brett Elizabeth – Theory into Practice, 1998
Using a critical model of reader response to literature in diverse urban secondary classrooms is important. The model helps teachers encourage diverse readers to generate their own text so they can engage with text that is more interesting than the traditional canon and become more willing and able to respond. Samples of diverse urban students'…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, Cultural Relevance, Diversity (Student), English Instruction
Tuman, Myron C., Ed – 1992
Revealing something of the vast changes in intellectual life that are likely to follow the rapid expansion in the power and availability of computers, the essays in this book represent a serious effort to redefine the parameters of literacy debates of the 1980s. Discussions at the end of each of the five sections of the book represent an attempt…
Descriptors: Censorship, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Critical Reading
Probst, R. E. – 1987
Intended for literature instructors, this digest explains the relationship of transactional theory (a reciprocal, mutually defining relationship between the reader and the literary text) to the teaching of literature. The importance of the reader's part in literature is first demonstrated, noting that attention must be paid to who the readers are,…
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, Higher Education, Individualized Reading
Langer, Judith A. – 1991
Concerned with redefining instructional theory related to the teaching and learning processes in literature, this paper concentrates on articulating principles underlying literature instruction that can be taught in methods courses and that can become the framework that teachers internalize and use to make daily decisions about their teaching and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Communication, Classroom Research, Critical Reading

Golden, Joanne – English Quarterly, 1986
Analyzes how two groups of eighth graders and their teacher create literary texts during small group discussion, and suggests the importance of talk as a means of constructing meaning. (NKA)
Descriptors: Characterization, Critical Reading, Discourse Analysis, English Instruction