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The Preparations for Charting Reader Responses in the "Folktale Project." Folktale: A Cross-Cultural Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 13.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1989
This paper briefly reviews the state of the art in reader response research with special reference to the Danish studies in reader responses. The paper then proceeds to a discussion of a number of methodological problems inherent in setting up questions for cross-cultural (and international) studies in general, and for reader response studies in…
Descriptors: Adults, Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries
High Schools Students' Instructional Preferences When Reading Literary Works of Art
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Raines, Angela Sykes; Brabham, Edna Greene; Aycock, Anna – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2007
Despite the fact that students are an important component of the educational process, their preferences for instruction are not typically a consideration for classroom practices. The purpose of this survey study was to determine high school students' preferences for methods used in the instruction of literary works of art. Students expressed…
Descriptors: High School Students, Reading Attitudes, Preferences, Reading Instruction
Satire as a Reinforcer of Attitudes.
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Gruner, Charles R. – 1995
Literati differ markedly on whether satire is persuasive. Accordingly, a study tested whether partisans of a political candidate would fail to perceive the thesis of satire ridiculing their candidate; further, it tested whether they would perceive the thesis of satire ridiculing an opposing candidate. Subjects, students at the University of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Persuasive Discourse, Political Attitudes, Political Candidates
The Empirical Selection--By Means of Readers' Responses--of the Three Tables To Be Used in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Report No. 3.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1985
This report, the third of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the empirical selection procedure used in order to identify the three tales which were to be used in future…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Procedures for Establishing the 'Same,' Definitive Versions in Danish and in English of a Danish, a Greenlandic, and a Turkish Story in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 4.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1987
This paper, the fourth of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the work on organizing texts from different cultures and nations (Denmark, Greenland, and Turkey) in the…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
The Construction and Experimental, Cross-National Testing of the First Version of the Questionnaire on the Readers' Backgrounds in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 5.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1987
This paper, the fifth of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, describes the methods used for the construction of a questionnaire for readers' social, educational, financial, and…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
A Listing of Edited Statements Made by Readers during the Reading of Three Stories in the Folktale Project. Folktale: A Cross-Cultural, Interdisciplinary Study of the Experience of Literature. Paper 7.
Dollerup, Cay; And Others – 1988
This paper, the last of seven, part of an interdisciplinary project on the context of reading and reading research that explores similarities and dissimilarities in the response to literature in readers from different cultures, supplies the "Folktale project" with readers' statements which can be used for the construction of a…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Folk Culture, Foreign Countries, Interdisciplinary Approach
A Voice of One's Own: Creating Writing Identities.
Dickerson, Mary Jane – 1988
The ability to infuse language with qualities of the human voice in the act of speaking is what distinguishes autobiography as a genre and makes it most suited to teaching students subtle features inherent in the complex act of writing. When students write from personal experience, they consciously begin to shape their identities in one direction…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Creative Writing, Higher Education, Literature