Attending to a poem's title as a structural cue was evident in novice but not expert protocols, and the title jolted a novice into revising a misinterpretation.¶

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q2 i? One strategy guiding meaning appeared in the novice, but not the expert, protocols: giving interpretive weight to the title, which corrected a novice's misreading of the poem as being about a flower. → Peskin 1998

Evidence¶

Peskin 1998¶

Peskin, J. (1998). Constructing meaning when reading poetry: An expert-novice study. Cognition and Instruction, 16(3), 235-263. https://doi.org/10.1207/s1532690xci1603_1

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Protocol analysis in the same think-aloud study. Novice Two, misreading the poem as about a flower, glanced at the title and exclaimed: "Oh no! It 's On a Drop of Dew. That 's what it 's on."

"interestingly there was one strategy guiding meaning that was evident in the novice, but not the expert, protocols. This was the consideration of the title of the poem."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Prior Knowledge — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Experts employed productive interpretive strategies in making poems coherent — using structure, binary oppositions, wordplay, rhythm and rhyme as cues, and scanning to contextualize — which novices used minimally. — related
• Experts expressed greater appreciation of the poems and their specific images, while novices very frequently expressed interpretive frustration and dissatisfaction. — related
• Novices who have had poetry instruction have internalized Culler's general conventions for poetry as discourse: significance, thematic unity, and metaphorical coherence. — related
• In reading textually constrained period poetry, experts' organized domain knowledge (schemata) is the major factor differentiating them from novices, enabling allusion, contextualization and anticipation. — related