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Peer reviewedMusgrave, P. W. – English in Australia, 1987
Presents results of a study of how readers fill in information "gaps" in a text to make meaning, using adolescents' response to a story by Brecht. Concludes that such gaps bore children uninterested in making meaning, and that those who make meaning from a mechanical stance may be limited in their comprehension unless deeper ways of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Literary Criticism, Literature Appreciation
Peer reviewedDavis, Boyd H. – Children's Literature in Education, 1985
Reviews several books that seek to explain what some of the structures of meaning are that stories present to readers and feed into their memories. (HOD)
Descriptors: Childrens Literature, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Mapping, Concept Formation
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
