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Reader Response Theory Chapter 2

Reader Response Theory Chapter 2. Reader Response Theory. READING IS: TRANSACTIONAL TEMPORAL SOCIAL CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONAL. Reader Response Theory. TRANSACTIONAL A transaction between reader, text, others (including the author), and social/cultural context.

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Reader Response Theory Chapter 2

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  1. Reader Response TheoryChapter 2

  2. Reader Response Theory READING IS: • TRANSACTIONAL • TEMPORAL • SOCIAL • CULTURAL • TRANSFORMATIONAL

  3. Reader Response Theory TRANSACTIONAL • A transaction between reader, • text, • others (including the author), • and social/cultural context

  4. Reader Response Theory Reader stance towards a text determines how a text is read. (Rosenblatt, Langer)

  5. Reader Response Theory Efferent stance • point driven, • looking for information, knowledge to use to act in the real world

  6. Reader Response Theory Aesthetic stance • towards a horizon of possibilities, • for the (virtual) experience created while reading, • enabling contemplation of values

  7. Reader Response Theory Efferent and Aesthetic stances exist on a continuum. Both can result in pleasure.

  8. Reader Response Theory TEMPORAL • an event in time • and across time

  9. Reader Response Theory Evocation according to Langer • being out and stepping in • being in and moving through

  10. Reader Response Theory Response according to Langer • being in and stepping out to think about life • stepping out and objectifying the experience

  11. Reader Response Theory Aesthetic reading processes according to Benton: • Anticipation and retrospection • Prediction • Confirmation • Disconfirmation

  12. Reader Response Theory • Picturing or imaging • creating mental images from words on the page • Interacting/projecting • social escape to aesthetic enchantment

  13. Reader Response Theory • Evaluating, or valuing of story • impetus to continue reading • Interrogating • questioning text to acquiescent acceptance

  14. Reader Response Theory SOCIAL AND CULTURAL • Read in the company of others • Fish’s community of readers • Learn ways of taking from text • Do what we are required to do

  15. Reader Response Theory • We are socially/culturally situated beings • Values • Attitudes • Authors are socially/culturally situated beings

  16. Reader Response Theory TRANSFORMATIONAL • Engaged reading • Increase knowledge (efferent) • Develop values (aesthetic)

  17. Reader Response Theory GOALS FOR TEACHERS According to Purves, Rogers, & Soter—and others! Develop readers • Read for pleasure and information • Read widely and deeply

  18. Reader Response Theory • Develop responsive readers • Engage with texts • Appropriate stance • Develop knowledgeable readers • About books • About their own responses

  19. Reader Response Theory • Develop literary understanding • How books work • Awareness of style • Awareness of family of literature • Develop critical readers • Awareness of social/cultural influences

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