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José María Gil; Jonás Ezequiel Bergonzi Martínez – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2025
This article addresses the challenge of teaching Jorge Luis Borges' complex literary texts in secondary school by focusing on students' global comprehension. It presents findings from classroom-based research in which students from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds read Borges' story 'Theme of the Traitor and the Hero'. The research compares the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Secondary School Curriculum, Secondary Education
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Groenke, Susan Lee; Youngquist, Michelle – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
When the authors taught Walter Dean Myers's postmodern young adult novel "Monster" to ninth graders, they assumed the students would like the text, as its format and style resemble that of popular television crime shows. The authors also assumed the students would be savvy readers of the text, capable of understanding and integrating postmodern…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Adolescents, Postmodernism, Novels