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- Title
Middle School Students' Reading Responses.
- Authors
Zhihui Fang; Ferdig, Richard E.; Zhijun Wang; Trutschel, Brian K.
- Abstract
Reading response holds a prominent place in the English language arts curriculum. Despite its importance, few studies have explored students' performance on the task from a linguistic perspective. This article examines a random sample of reading responses written by students enrolled in a middle school online language arts course using a genre-specific evaluation tool that addresses content, logic, stance, and engagement. Results from the linguistic analysis show that the adolescents' responses typically focused on personal feelings, story retelling, and character analysis, with little evidence of thematic interpretation. This finding is discussed in light of the current literature on response writing and language arts pedagogy.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S literature; ENGLISH language education in middle schools; FUNCTIONAL linguistics; LINGUISTICS research; ONLINE education; EDUCATION research; LINGUISTICS education
- Publication
Writing & Pedagogy, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 3, p531
- ISSN
1756-5839
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1558/wap.v6i3.531