The need for classroom instruction and materials that reflect students who come from different cultural and linguistic background is important in a country with a multiethnic population. The purpose of this study is to investigate how student teachers respond to literary texts t…
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This study explores how a person in ancient Judah, reading the book of Jonah prior to its inclusion in the Hebrew canon, might have construed this story's meaning. To date, biblical scholarship has attempted to ascertain the meaning of Jonah apart from its historical context by …
In my earlier work, 'First steps towards a rhetorical hermeneutics of literary interpretation' (2006), I argued that academic reading takes the form of an argument between readers. Four serious weaknesses in that account are its elision of the distinction between reading and dis…
The purpose of this study was to research and identify interpretive tools and Holocaust-related materials, and to construct with these materials a college-level multimedia-based introductory Holocaust text. The research focused on content and construction. The content included s…
The primary purpose of this investigation was to explore an instructional approach for reading, writing, and talking about literature in an EFL environment. The instructional approach investigated in this study is Transactional Literature Discussions (TLD), which has an aim of f…
Since September 11, 2001, Western readers have been turning to bestselling texts written by or about Muslims in their need to learn more about Muslims. These texts promise an insider's view of predominantly Muslim countries and peoples and are informally influencing and educatin…
This qualitative study describes the experience of eleven Indonesian preservice teachers as they read and learned about children's literature in an introduction to children's literature course during one academic semester. Informed by reader response theories, teacher learning, …
This dissertation project examines the symbol of an art object which represents a corpse or dead person’s identity, what I call the abject d’art, as it appears in fin de siècle (late nineteenth century) supernatural fiction by Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and is used in order to id…
Poetry is work of art in which poets express their thoughts, feelings and emotions through oral presentation or writing. According to Tsambo (1999: 2), “poetry is the expression of the life experiences; these life experiences are unfolded or expressed in a variety of themes.” Th…
This dissertation argues that the biblical hermeneutic of the contemporary spiritual warfare movement (CSWM), of which C. Peter Wagner and Charles H. Kraft are strong advocates, is to be rejected due to the fact that it strongly mirrors reader-response hermeneutical methodology,…