The current study aims to propose Reciprocal Question Strategy of learning as a way to activate readers' response to the literature text, and seek how to teach it to elementary school students. The flow of literary education has been changing from the...
The current study aims to propose Reciprocal Question Strategy of learning as a way to activate readers' response to the literature text, and seek how to teach it to elementary school students. The flow of literary education has been changing from the perspective of New Criticism focused on the text to the viewpoint focused on readers' response to stress their role. As literary education focused of the text made learners lose their interest in the literary text, and literary education focused on response became powerful to respect learners' literary experience and response. The literary education centered on response takes into consideration both reader and text factors and values interactive communication between readers and texts, and a communicative process between readers. Based on this in the current study we designed and applied reciprocal question strategy of learning to promote mutual communication between readers.
The focus of discussion in this paper is as follows: First, as the theoretical background of this research we examine Rosenblatt's literary education theory focused on response and reciprocal question strategy of learning and their relations. Second, we design reciprocal question strategy of learning and apply it to the practical literature class in order to find out the methods of teaching for literature response activation of the literary text.
For this chapter II examined the meaning of reciprocal question strategy of learning for literature response activation of the literary text. First of all, we discussed the background of the advent and characteristics of Rosenblatt's literary education theory focused on response which is its theoretical basis, and established the nature, types and meanings of reciprocal questions for literary education focused on response. As a type of the reciprocal question we provided aesthetic questions and explained their details and concrete examples.
In chapter Ⅲ we designed reciprocal question strategy of learning based on the theoretical background discussed in chapter II and sought the methods of concrete application. In order to design detailed contents of reciprocal question strategy of learning the subject and the object and the situational factors were considered. The subject was examined dividing into the level of teachers, learners, and learners and learners, and the concrete process in which reciprocal question strategy of learning is applied was examined dividing it into steps before, during and after reading. Designed details were applied practically to elementary school 5 graders-children.
Through the above discussion the researcher obtained the following conclusions.
First, reciprocal question strategy of learning activated learners' literary response by promoting mutual communication between readers and text, and mutual communication between readers and readers. Aesthetic questions of appreciating poetic words, associating with experience, doing empathy, inferring and imagining, and evaluating drew concrete and diverse literary response of learners. They recalled their ideas first, and gave and took them with other learners, and finally, arrived at voluntary and appropriate response organizing their thinking.
Second, reciprocal question strategy of learning helped the learners realize the pleasure of literature, and prepared a foothold as active readers to find and read literary texts for themselves. The learners realized that the pleasure of literature is the pleasure of conversation talking to themselves, teachers, and fellow learners by the medium of literary texts, and came to read literary texts voluntarily.
The current study has its meanings in that it developed learning strategy to activate leaners' response to literary texts and help them realize the pleasure of literature and read literary texts themselves. It is deemed that reciprocal question strategy of learning has enough values as learning strategy to put into practice literary education focused on response.