Reading and Responding to Poetry: To Know, to Experience

Three poet-researchers conduct three different readings of Tishani Doshi’s poem A Fable for the 21st Century. We ask how as creative practitioners and critics we can negotiate the desire for mastery of a text, and the dangers a semiotic reading presents, allowing for difference, indecision, and complexity. We present our initial readings of the poem and summarize our discussions of them grounded in the transactional reading theory of Louise Rosenblatt and nuanced by assemblage theory. A final section includes three original poems written in response to Doshi, together with a brief discussion of them, and forms part of our conclusion.

Lectura en voz alta y narración en lenguas indígenas

This paper describes some experiences obtained in the Reading Aloud Workshop for the Zapotec region of Yautepec, Oaxaca (2017), whose goal was to support an indigenous education teachers group with the socialization of the reading aloud technique in dizdea language (Zapotec). Specifically, the use of this literary practice to develop transactional reading and to reactivate the oral storytelling tradition in endangered indigenous languages. The description presents three axes: writing, reading and oral storytelling, which are considered integral elements —but not the only ones— in the promotion and revitalization of indigenous languages from written or alphabetic supports

Improving Mathematical Communication Ability and Self Confidence of Junior High School Students Through Learning Transactional Reading Strategy

This study is a quasi experiment that aims to determine whether theachievement and improvement of students' mathematical communicationskills and confidence of students who get the Learning TransactionalReading Strategy is better than the ordinary study reviewed overall andKAM categories. Alternative approach applied is Learning TransactionalReading Strategy. The research method used is quasi experimental methodwith the population of junior high school students in Bandung. While thesample is taken from class VII as much as two classes are randomlyselected from 9 classes. Before doing the research the first test ofprerequisite or Early Mathematical Ability (KAM) is done. At thebeginning and end of the learning the two experimental and control classeswere given a test and attitude questionnaire. The data collection in thisresearch is in the form of test which contains 6 description questions formathematical communication ability and 30 attitude questionnaires ofstudent's self confidence .The score data of each capability was analyzed by descriptive andinferential statistic using the difference test of two averages. Based on theresults of the study, both the results of data analysis and hypothesis testing,the author concludes that the improvement of mathematical communicationskills of students who get the learning transactional reading strategy isbetter than the improvement of students' communication skills learningusing ordinary learning reviewed overall and KAM category is medium.While the self-confidence of students who get the learning transactionalreading strategy is better than the students' self-confidence who getordinary learning reviewed overall and categories of high, medium and lowKAM.

Transactional Reading in EFL Learning: A Path to Promote Critical Thinking through Urban Legends

This article reports the research methodology and the findings of an action-research study conducted with a group of EFL eleventh graders’ at a public school in Bogotá. The study aimed at helping learners develop critical thinking through the implementation of the Transactional approach to reading. Individual and social transactions during the reading process of several urban legends enabled learners to discuss social conflicts that were also related to their lives, including, for instance, social irresponsibility, violence, drug consumption, and dishonesty. Data analysis from teachers’ observations, students’ opinions in an interview, and artifacts (workshops) completed in a pedagogical intervention show that the students fostered critical thinking. The main findings indicate that they <em>criticized </em>human behaviors, <em>generated </em>solutions to conflicts, and <em>planned</em> and <em>produced</em> new knowledge based on previous information<em>.</em> An equal significant finding is that they became critical learners when they used the foreign language. <br /><p> </p><p> </p>

Transactional Reading Theory in Information Organization

PURPOSE/THESIS: The article is intended to present some opportunities to apply the text genres theory, transaction theory and cognitive schemata theory in the Information organization. The text genre should be understood here as a mental schema developed and distributed as a result of repeatable transactions with the text. The bibliographic (catalog) record can be treated as a text of a specified genre, which enables the scientists to research the social transactions both between the text and the author (information organizer, librarian) and the text and the recipient (information system user, library). All research presented in the article may be helpful to describe changes in transactions related to the changes in information technologies. METHODS: The article contains the description of changes to the transactions of information organization resulting from the application of new information technologies, that is the transformation of bibliographic record text into cybertext and their genres into cybergenres. RESULTS AND CONCLUSIONS: Any changes to the technologies used in the information organization lead to the development and enhancement of the users transactions with the text of the record in order to increase the search capabilities and simplify the methods of transaction implementation. ORIGINALITY/COGNITIVE VALUE: The approaches presented in the article are based on the theories of: cognitive schemata (constructivism), text genres (Miller and Andersen) and transactions (Dewey, Rosenblatt), applied in the analysis of bibliographic (catalog) records, treated as texts built in a specified convention arising from the repeatable transactions between information organizers and users. This point of view helps place those texts in an appropriate place among texts present in the scientific discourse.

Transactional Reading as Spiritual Investment

THIS ARTICLE ADDRESSES how Christians can read wisely and well as citizens of both God's kingdom and an increasingly secular society. I suggest that focussing on reading as a transaction between reader and text rather than on the morality of texts or the maturity of readers can provide a biblical approach for Christian educators seeking to invest reading experiences with Christian faith. I also contend that reading is one of the ways Christians should invest in a secular society and that when readers sow their faith and invest their spiritual lives in their reading transactions, they can grow spiritually.

Using Transactional Reading Strategies to Support Sense-Making and Discussion in Mathematics Classrooms: An Exploratory Study

In this study we explore the potential for mathematics instruction of four reading strategies grounded in transactional reading theory. On the basis of the descriptive study of 18 instructional episodes developed in 4 secondary mathematics classes as a result of collaborative action research, we show that encouraging mathematics students to talk, write, draw, and enact texts can provide them with concrete ways to construct and negotiate interpretations of what they read. In addition to helping students better understand the text read, acting on and acting out a text allow students to use that text as a springboard for sense-making and discussion of important mathematical ideas and issues about the nature of mathematics, especially when these reading experiences are supported by compatible classroom norms and values.