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READING. European Conference on Reading Mons 31.7.—3.8.2011 Katri Sarmavuori. WHAT IS IT?. What is it ? — thinking , reasoning — psycholinguistic guessing game (Goodman 1987) — radical , revolutionary ( Bloom 2001) — poaching ( Lyons 2010) — R = D x C (Lundberg 1989)
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READING European Conference on Reading Mons 31.7.—3.8.2011 Katri Sarmavuori
What is it? • — thinking, reasoning • — psycholinguisticguessinggame (Goodman 1987) • — radical, revolutionary (Bloom 2001) • — poaching (Lyons 2010) • — R = D x C (Lundberg 1989) • — informationseeking, creatingmeaning • — dancing with an unknownpartner • — dancing with an invisiblepartner (Blanchot 2003)
Reading • — meaning • — aim • — target • — studying • — amusement • — skill
— generates ideas and stimulates creativity: readers think creatively as they bring the reader’s text alive through their imagination — stimulates the imagination and aids intellectual development helps develop a critical and thinking mind — aids personal growth and emotional development — helps us to shape, store and reflect on our past and our future, by experiencing the life of other periods — gives a better understanding of human nature and insight into life; offers role models — offers cultural and ethnic awareness and understanding of moral codes /ethics /values — offers social awareness of different regions, communities and peer groups, and understanding of the complexities of relationships — enables the reader to see things from other angles, to appreciate and understand other people’s problems, aiding tolerance and understanding (Elkin, Train & Denham 2003, 12)
Understanding of reading • — experienceof life • — earlierknowledge • — age • — susceptibility • — differenttheories
Understandingtheories • — hermeneuticand newcritical tradition • — receptiontheory • — transactiontheory • — envisioning • — instructionalscience of mothertongue • — notliterature science
Physiology brain eyes Reading pathway in the brain (Wolfe & Nevills 2004, 24)
Language phonologicalawareness vocabulary
Tool and genre • — book • — webb • — fiction • — informationalliterature • — newspaper
Methods to teach to read • — synthetic • — analytic • — mixedmethods
Reading strategies Eine Lustzu lesenAimerlire
Harold Bloom The Western Canon (1994): William Shakespeare Dante (Alighieri) Geoffrey Chaucer Miquel de Cervantes Michel de Montaigne Molière John Milton Samuel Johnson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Wordsworth Jane Austen Walt Whitman Charles Dickinson George Eliot Leo Tolstoi Henrik Ibsen Sigmund Freud Marcel Proust Virginia Woolf Franz Kafka Jorge Luis Borges Pablo Neruda Fernando Pessoa Samuel Beckett
Canon, classics • Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet • Kalevala • Runeberg: FänrikStålssägner • Topelius: Birch and star • Aleksis Kivi: Sevenbrothers • Gogol: Overcoat
Ibsen: Dollhouse • Minna Canth: Priest’sfamily • Strindberg: Miss Julie • Kianto: Red line • Juhani Aho: Juha • Sillanpää: Silja • Mika Waltari: Sinuhe, Egyptian • Orwell: Animalfarm • Steinbeck: Pearl
Camus: L’étranger, Stranger • Väinö Linna: Unknown soldier • Tove Jansson: Moominpapa and the sea • Veikko Huovinen: Havukka-aho’sphilosopher • Arto Paasilinna: Year of hare, Le lièvre de Vatanen