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Peer reviewedChick, Nancy L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 2002
Presents an assignment in which students look through a handful of poetry collections or anthologies, seeking 20 poems they like and thus understand or want to understand to some extent. Describes the benefits of this assignment, including honing students' interpretive skills, dispelling their misconceptions about the genre, and continuing their…
Descriptors: Anthologies, Interpretive Skills, Poetry, Reading Attitudes
Peer reviewedScorza, Richard – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Recounts a method for advancing from literal to more subtle interpretations of language in literature. (HTH)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English Instruction, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
Peer reviewedPufahl, John P. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
Suggests developmental reading courses that permit the student to explore the text's meaning through his or her own experiences, rather than impressing on them one "correct" meaning. (HTH)
Descriptors: Developmental Programs, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
Peer reviewedJones, Dan C. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1980
An approach to teaching literature that takes into account both the cognitive and affective domains--the view that meaning lies in the mind of both the reader and the author--is emphasized. (HTH)
Descriptors: Authors, College English, English Instruction, Higher Education
Peer reviewedFox, Dana L. – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1991
Asserts that extending reading journals to case studies of classmates as readers and viewing journal responses as "texts" help to redefine the study of literature and to build a community of interpreters of texts. Describes a course based on these ideas. (PRA)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Case Studies, College English, Community Colleges
