The Reader, the text, the Context: An Exploration of a Choreographed Response to Literature

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dc.contributor.authorPeter Smagorinsky
dc.contributor.authorJohn Coppock
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-14T19:52:39Z
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-30T15:33:33Z
dc.date.available2016-01-14T19:52:39Z
dc.date.available2016-03-30T15:33:33Z
dc.date.issued1995-09-01
dc.description.abstractMuch current theory about response to literature stresses the reader's active role in constructing meaning, with reader, text, and context affecting the responses of individual readers (Beach, 1993). Response to literature, like most classroom interaction, tends to take a linguistic form. In a supportive classroom environment, however, a range of response media can potentially mediate students' transactions with literature. The present exploratory study used stimulated recall to elicit a retrospective account from two alternative school students who choreographed a dance to depict their understanding of the relationship between the two central characters in a short story. In their account they indicate that in composing their text they (a) initiated their interpretation by empathizing with the characters, (b) represented the characters' relationship through spatial images and configurations, and (c) used the psychological tool of dance to both represent and develop their thinking about the story. Their thought and activity were further mediated by the social context of learning, including the communication genres of the classroom, their own interaction, their teacher's intervention, and the stimulated recall interview itself. Their account illustrates the way in which reader, text, and context participate in a complex transaction when readers construct meaning for literature. Their experience also illustrates the ways in which the values of an instructional setting influence the extent to which learners may take advantage of the psychological tools available to them for growth.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
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dc.identifier.citationSmagorinsky, P., & Coppock, J. (1995). The Reader, the text, the Context: An Exploration of a Choreographed Response to Literature. Journal of Literacy Research, 27(3), 271-298. doi: 10.1080/10862969509547884en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10862969509547884en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/24840
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Literacy Research
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dc.titleThe Reader, the text, the Context: An Exploration of a Choreographed Response to Literatureen_US
dc.typeResearch Articleen_US

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