This study investigates the reading processes used by nine sixteen-year-old, adolescent reluctant readers as they read and interpret poetry. The study also considers how these reading processes are affected by the students' participation in a one-month study of reading and independently discussing poetry in small groups. Each student's responding-aloud interpretation of poetry gathered before the study (pre-test protocol) is compared with his or her responding-aloud interpretation of poetry gathered after the study (post-test protocol). This is done by analyzing each protocol according to a reading scale which identifies five key-reading processes each of which is qualitatively differentiated across five categories. This reading scale, designed by the researcher, is based on the analysis of over one hundred and twenty responding-aloud protocols of adolescent reluctant readers. / Six of the nine readers refine the processes through which they read and interpret poetry. The most likely cause of this improvement is their having been involved in independent small-group discussion of poetry. The analysis of students' pre-test and post-test protocols reveal the (differing) extents to which each of them use the five key-reading processes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.74572 |
| Date | January 1990 |
| Creators | Sullivan, M. Alayne |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (Department of Curriculum and Instruction.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001170416, proquestno: AAINN66500, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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