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The Effects of Familiarity or Distance in the Critical Reading of Texts.
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de Oliveira Pimenta, Sonia Maria – ESPecialist, 1989
Analyzes the familiarity or distance aspects as well as interest in topics of texts in the light of reader-text interaction. Results found that familiarity and interest with a topic of a text may influence the reading process in terms of evaluation, reader text interaction, and critical reading. (20 references) (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Critical Reading, English (Second Language), Familiarity, Postsecondary Education
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire.
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Miall, David S.; Kuiken, Don – Research in the Teaching of English, 1995
Describes the development of the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), which provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers' orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. Reviews evidence for the LRQ's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Literature Appreciation, Questionnaires, Reader Text Relationship
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
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