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Publication details [#12685]
Cranny-Francis, Anne. 1996. Technology and/or weapon: the discipline of reading in the secondary English classroom. In Hasan, Ruqaiya and Geoff Williams, eds. Literacy in Society. (Applied linguistics and language study). Longman. pp. 172–190.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Annotation
The author's theoretical positioning holds that meaning-making is a complex operation, involving not only the reader, but also a number of interrelated textual and contextual features. Hence texts are seen as potentially productive of a great number of meanings.
The non-mainstream reading of a short story in an English secondary class is examined.