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A Reader's Experience: How Teachers Can Utilize Literature Circles And Reader Response Theory In An All-Male Environment To Evaluate Reader Engagement, Motivation, And Identifying With A Text, Langley Pierre
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This teacher-research project was implemented in an all-male eighth grade English Language Arts classroom in order to identify reader motivation, engagement, and identifying with a text through literature circles; utilizing reader response theory. The researcher wanted to discover if the pedagogical practice of literature circles was effective in motivating and engaging readers so that they could better identify with a text and their peers in a classroom setting. The researcher is defining reader response theory as an examination of the transaction between a reader and a text. To determine the effectiveness of these strategies, the researcher introduced a unit that …