Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development

Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781441172334
ISBN-13 : 1441172335
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Book Synopsis Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development by : Sam Duncan

Download or read book Reading Circles, Novels and Adult Reading Development written by Sam Duncan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adult literacy teachers are constantly searching for effective, engaging and distinctly 'adult' ways to develop adult emergent reading and, for at least the past two hundred years, adults have formed themselves into reading circles to read and discuss novels on a weekly or monthly basis. Why then are reading circles rarely used, or studied, in formal adult literacy provision? This book explores adult reading development, novel reading and reading circles in the context of a wider examination of reading pedagogies and practices in the English-speaking world. It discusses reading as both an individual and a communal act and investigates the relationship between literature and literacy development, practice and pedagogy (including a reassessment of the controversial approaches of reading aloud and phonics for adults). Sam Duncan reviews a case study of an adult reading circle in a large London further education college and identifies the wider implications for the teaching and learning of adult emergent reading, for the use and understanding of reading circles and for how we understand the novel reading experience more broadly.


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