Langer found four stances of meaning-making operate across literary and nonliterary reading regardless of text type¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? In both literary and nonliterary reading, readers employed four stances—being out and stepping into an envisionment, being in and moving through it, stepping back and rethinking, and stepping out and objectifying—supporting the view that these stances underlie developing understandings regardless of text type. → Smagorinsky 1992

Evidence¶

Smagorinsky 1992¶

Smagorinsky, P., & Smith, M. W. (1992). The Nature of Knowledge in Composition and Literary Understanding: The Question of Specificity. Review of Educational Research, 62(3), 279-305. https://doi.org/10.3102/00346543062003279

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review reports Langer's finding that readers employed the same four stances in both literary and nonliterary reading, which she interprets as evidence the stances underlie meaning-making regardless of text type. No effect size is printed.

"the similarities in the process involved in responding across the different text types indicate that the four stances represent a range of meaning-making options that underlie developing understandings in general—regardless of text type"

Discussion¶

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