Reading and Writing Skills

Lesson 5: Context of Text

Development

Mr. Laurenz Gerald A. Cruz

Opening Prayer
 Lord of light and wisdom, grant us bright
intellect, sound judgment and retentive
memory. Help us to study patiently, orderly
and diligently to develop our gifts and make
good use of them according to your will, as
we commit ourselves to Veritas et Fortitudo,
Pro Deo et Patria. Amen.
 Lesson Objectives

• define hypertext and intertextuality;

• establish the connection between a text and the context in

which the text was developed.
 What kind of reader are you?

PASSIVE ACTIVE

 Someone who takes the text

 Someone who interacts with the text
very literally.
 Who engages in a dialogue with the
 Only able to view the text on its writer or the author
surface structure
 Takes different perspectives in
viewing the text
 What is context?
• refers to the situations or
circumstances surrounding a text
• considered as the influences of a
writer as he or she develops his or
her text
• In understanding the context, the
following questions may be asked:
1. When was it written?
2. Who was the author?
3. Was there an event in the life of the
author that led him or her to write
the text?
4. What was the political situation
then?
5. What pressing social issues were
present during the time when the
text was written?
 Intertextuality

Examples:
• The interconnectedness and
interdependence between
●
Romeo and Juliet
languages, images,
●
Pyramus and Thisbe characters, and themes in the
context of reading.
II.

●
The Odyssey
●
Ulysses
 Hypertext
• THEODOR HOLM NELSON- First coined
by American professor, web designer, and
author.
• refers to texts and any other related
information on screen
• Through this, the reading becomes nonlinear
as it directs the reader to many options by
clicking one link after another.
• Makes the reading heavily dependent on the
readers, for they have the liberty to choose
which link to access, to ignore and to skip.
 Seatwork

Answer p. 55 of your
Reading and Writing
Skills book
CLOSING
PRAYER
Lord, thank you for giving us the
opportunity to learn and the
capacity to understand. Let our
knowledge be of service not only
for the attainment of our goals
but also for the benefit of others.
Amen.