Taylor, L orcid.org/0000-0001-7336-8189 (2022) How texts teach what readers learn in a digital age. English in Education, 56 (3). pp. 222-234. ISSN 0425-0494
Abstract
This paper focuses on How Texts Teach What Readers Learn (Meek, 1988) and considers how texts teach readers in a digital age. I use Meek’s book as a frame for exploring the ways children learn about narration, structure, voice, discourse and language, and becoming an “insider” in the text. To demonstrate this, I use Meek’s own stipulation “If we want to see what lessons have been learned from the texts children read, we have to look for them in what they write” (p38). Three vignettes are included as exemplars, offering insights into the ways children use their experiences as readers to create hybrid texts, drawing on different media and modes. I conclude that How Texts Teach is still highly relevant to understanding of children’s reading and writing despite changing social and material contexts, and is a frame through which changes in children’s reading and writing practices can usefully be explored.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Children’s reading; children’s writing; digital literacies; multimodality |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Education (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) ES/T501955/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jun 2022 11:56 |
Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2023 16:45 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/04250494.2022.2089014 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:187800 |
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