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Readers building fictional worlds: visual representations, poetry and cognition

Giovanelli, Marcello

Authors

Marcello Giovanelli



Abstract

This article explores the complex nature of the literature classroom by drawing on the cognitive linguistic framework Text World Theory to examine the teacher's role as facilitator and mediator of reading. Specifically, the article looks at how one teacher used visual representations as a way of allowing students to engage in a more personal and less teacher-driven transaction with a poem and to encourage them to reflect on their own roles as active makers of meaning and knowledge in the classroom. The article shows how teachers can be mindful of the various contextual factors that can privilege and legitimise certain kinds of response in the classroom and be wary of external factors and pressures that can promote the idea of preconceived knowledge. The teacher in the case study presented was able to both facilitate the experience of reading poetry in an unmediated way and also develop her students' metacognition in relation to the reading process itself. The article shows how Text World Theory's status as a socio-cognitive grammar may be of benefit to teachers in understanding the nature of communicative interaction and literary transaction.

Citation

Giovanelli, M. (2017). Readers building fictional worlds: visual representations, poetry and cognition. Literacy, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12091

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date May 21, 2016
Online Publication Date Aug 16, 2016
Publication Date Jan 4, 2017
Deposit Date Jun 15, 2016
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Literacy
Print ISSN 1741-4350
Electronic ISSN 1741-4369
Publisher Wiley
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 51
Issue 1
DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/lit.12091
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/841986
Publisher URL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lit.12091/abstract?
Related Public URLs http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1741-4369

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