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Liebman-Kleine, JoAnne – 1985
In developing an interactive model of composing, this paper discusses three groups of reader-oriented theories, each of which provides composing theorists with some research and theory to use in developing such a model. First the paper discusses the main principle of the literary reader-response theorists--that the meaning and value of texts do…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Reader Response
Peer reviewedPiper, David – English Quarterly, 1986
Presents some personal experimental work relating to world metaphors together with that of others working in the areas of logic, psychology, and philosophy. (NKA)
Descriptors: English Instruction, English Literature, Fiction, Language Processing
Mikkelsen, Nina – Highway One, 1985
Studies how children negotiate the meaning of literature by examining how they responded when given the opportunity to retell a story directly after hearing it. (DF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Language Processing
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1990
No matter what pains translators take to produce a target-language text "identical" to the source-language text, criticism and/or translation of an original literary work cannot be the same in different language communities. That translation may change potentialities in the textual experience is particularly obvious in literature with a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Cultural Influences, Folk Culture
Download full textFranklin, Elizabeth; And Others – Insights into Open Education, 1987
A group of elementary teachers enrolled in a graduate class in language arts at the University of North Dakota explored how children construct their own meanings as they interact with texts. One teacher regularly read to her 20-month-old grandson, and excerpts from the journal she kept reveal that his understanding of a specific text evolved to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Childrens Literature, Grade 5
Singer, Harry, Ed.; Bean, Thomas W., Ed. – 1984
Papers in this report were presented at a conference on text characteristics, convened as part of the Learning from Text Project. The foreword describes the University of California and California State University Joint Projects Steering Committee project to determine the relationship between ability to learn from text and academic achievement,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Evaluation Criteria
Mueller, Roseanna M. – 1986
Teaching literature as a basis for teaching writing affords a paradigm for teaching structure and meaning. While a truly integrated English department would put equal emphasis upon composition, language, literature, and reading, two-year college curricula have emphasized composition and challenged literature's place. A reader-based model for…
Descriptors: College English, Cultural Awareness, English Curriculum, Higher Education
