1 / 12

What Readers Bring to a Text

What Readers Bring to a Text. Discuss the influence of your context on your response to this text. Discuss how contextual factors have influenced you response to the ideas represented in at least one of the images provided and at least one visual text you have studied.

lovie
Download Presentation

What Readers Bring to a Text

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What Readers Bring to a Text

  2. Discuss the influence of your context on your response to this text.

  3. Discuss how contextual factors have influenced you response to the ideas represented in at least one of the images provided and at least one visual text you have studied. • Explore the ways in which viewers might accept and/or resist the constructions of identity offered in one of the following images and one other visual text..

  4. Discuss how your wider reading experience has influenced your response to one of the passages. • Write a response in which you reflect on the factors that influenced your appreciation and understanding of at least one text you have studied during the year.

  5. Response Interpretation of the meaning - the ideas and attitudes you believe the text is promoting: reader position encouraged Your attitude to the meaning – acceptance, rejection of ideas, scepticism

  6. Germany, 1938

  7. Factors Affecting Our Understanding of the Meaning Reader Context Contextual knowledge of the text Knowledge of Conventions Reading practices Choice of representation to read for who, when, where, why produced (incl genre) Gained from other texts

  8. Factors Affecting Our Attitude Toward the Meaning Prior knowledge of the subject Prior attitudes towards the subject

  9. Strategy for ‘Your Context’ Questions • Explain your understanding of the meaning of the text – the response it is seeking from the reader • Explain how your understanding is influenced by conventions and/or contextual knowledge and/or reading practice

  10. 3. Explain your attitudes towards the meaning of the text 4. Explain how your attitude is influenced by your prior knowledge and attitudes

  11. Harmony Day Poster, Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs, 1998

More Related