Social reading and literary engagement

Vipond, Douglas; Hunt, Russell A.; Wheeler, Lynwood C.

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“…A series of studies in the 1980s by Douglas Vipond and Russell A. Hunt (see, e.g., Vipond, Hunt, and Wheeler 1987), formulated with the intention of finding empirical evidence for Rosenblatt's "lived through" reading engagement, demonstrated that literary engagement is both context sensitive and dependent on fellow readers. They found that "dialogical reading" (Hunt and Vipond 1991), referring to readers' conversational engagement with a text's point of view and voice, happens only in social contexts such as discussions among friends or book clubs that encourage an active, personal engagement with the text, not in the laboratory setting in which they started out testing for engagement.…”

Section: The Role Of Fellow Readers In Facilitating Reading Engagementmentioning

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Facilitating Reading Engagement in Shared Reading

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This article responds to this special issue's overarching interest in the relation between modes of reading and the experiences of actual readers by analyzing how the specific practice of shared reading facilitates readers’ engagement in literary reading. The article responds both to an under-investigated dimension of the practice of shared reading, that of the role of facilitation, and to a pressing articulated and educational need to develop additional and better methodologies for fostering literary reading engagement, as existing results from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation's Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) have demonstrated the importance of reading engagement for both academic achievement and social mobility. By linking the notion of engagement within the PISA framework with phenomenologically oriented empirical research on expressive reading and the notion of emergent thinking in existing shared reading research, the article argues for the role of the reader leader in facilitating literary engagement. These connections may inspire literary scholars to consider the link between literary analysis and the didactics of literary reading.

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Section: The Role Of Fellow Readers In Facilitating Reading Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%