READER’S

RESPONSE
APPROACH GREEN
SEE 8 : Survey of Afro-Asian Literature
MOTIVATIO
N: The fastest one wins!
TOUNGE
TWISTERS
MOTIVATIO 01 PETER PIPER

02
N:
SHE SELLS SEASHELLS

03 SUSIE WORKS

TOUNGE 04 I HAVE GOT A DATE

TWISTERS 05 HOW MUCH WOOD?

 1st Tounge Twister
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
Where’s the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
 2nd Tounge Twister

She sells seashells by the seashore

 3rd Tounge Twister

Susie works in a shoeshine shop. Where

she shines she sits, and where she sits
she shines
 4th Tounge Twister

I have got a date at a quarter to eight; I’ll

see you at the gate, so don’t be late
 5th Tounge Twister
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood
As a woodchuck would if a woodchuck could chuck
wood
 WHAT IS READER’S RESPONSE
APPROACH?

Reader Response Criticism analyzes the reader’s role in the

production of meaning. It lies at the opposite end of the
spectrum from formalistic criticism. In reader response
criticism, the text itself has no meaning until it is read by a
reader. The reader creates the meaning.
 WHAT IS READER’S RESPONSE
APPROACH?

The reader response approach is centered on the belief

that a work of literature comes alive when the reader
interacts and connects with it, and research explores the
influence of the reader response approach to promote
text-to-self connections.
The reader response
approach is heavily reader-
oriented. Readers use their
prior knowledge and
experiences to give meaning
to a text, and they are
required to justify their
unique interpretations of a
text with textual evidence.
 READER’S RESPONSE APPROACH

?1?!143 Reader-response theory

recognizes the reader as
an active agent who
READ imparts "real existence"
to the work and
completes its meaning
through interpretation.
 READER’S RESPONSE
APPROACH

Example :

HOL I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

A When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;

When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,

And the river flows like a stream of glass;

When the first bird sings and the first bud opes,

And the faint perfume from its chalice steals—

I know what the caged bird feels!

 ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES

It recognizes that Reader Response

different people view criticism tends to
works differently, and make interpretation
that people’s too subjective.
interpretations change
over time.
 ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES
Using a reader response approach
helps secondary students become
critical readers and thinkers
because they are not simply told
how to think about a text, but
must justify their multiple
interpretations of a text using
textual evidence and support.
One brings their personal
interpretations to the text rather
than examining the meaning that
the other created.
The reader brings a creates a
narrow connection to the text,
rather than looking at different
perspectives.
 WHAT IS THE IMPORTANCE OF READER’S RESPONSE
APPROACH?

Reader response shows us how a student has read and

thought about text, and response allows us to help our
students read authentically, interacting with text. Response
demonstrates how readers make meaning from what they
read and wether they are truly engaged in what they are
reading.
 What makes reader’s
respponse approach
unique?
Unlike text-based approaches such
as New Criticism, which are grounded
upon some objective meaning already
present in the work being examined,
reader-response criticism argues that a
text has no meaning before a reader
experiences—reads—it.
 QUESTIONS THAT READER RESPONSE CRITICS ASK

• How much does the text agree or

• What does the text have disagree with your view of the world
to do with you, and what you think is right and
wrong? Cite specific lines from the
personally? text to prove your point.

• How well does the text address things that you

• How well does the text address
things that you personally care about
and consider important in the world?
Cite specific lines from the text.
personally care about and consider important in
the world? Cite specific lines from the text.
• What is your overall reaction to the text?
• What does the text have to do with
you, personally?
How much does the text agree or
disagree with your view of the
world and what you think is right
and wrong? Cite specific lines from
the text to prove your point.
How well does the text address BY
E!
things that you personally care
about and consider important in the
world? Cite specific lines from the
text.
What other texts does the this text
remind you of? Cite lines from the
text and explain the connection.
• What is your overall reaction to
the text?
THANKS FOR BYE!
LISTENING!