nʿ���ˁ��H�!t�����{q^������Na1���O�!^�2!�����M�U���$-�$b>���W���u�*悛=yK8�� �l����\�V���Ǡ���^�.kK And, for me anyway, it helps argue for the value of literary art because it contributes to what it means to be a human person; that is, it can contribute to the fuller integration of the mind and heart–that cognitive-affective synthesis, that unified sensibility Rosenblatt refers to. 23 0 obj This could be significant when dissecting and understanding students’ responses to a particular literary work. Create Open-Minded-Portraits to describe what characters think and feel in Change ), Reading 12 to Rosenblatt 3: “Efferent and Aesthetic Reading”. uuid:c401f325-b0d5-11b2-0a00-80d584f5fd7f She explains that the efferent s tance entails “a process of more s tringent narrowin g of the endobj 15 0 obj Rosenblatt is a real challenge for me and I usually have to read the chapters thoroughly twice before I can organize my thoughts and understand what she is saying. Interesting in this chapter is the criteria for distinguishing the efferent from the aesthetic. What do you mean by “categorizing reading as associate with text”? In other words, art ain’t an add-on; it’s an essential ingredient/experience. T/F. Thanks for your comments. There are aesthetic stance and efferent stance. Aesthetic reading involves experiencing what is being read – ‘living it’. <><>2 3]/P 6 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> there is value in reading with an efferent stance, but with the fiction genre especially, it is advantageous to go into it with an aesthetic stance. In aesthetic stance, the reader focused Teachers must use these types of reading strategies to get their students to understand that reading does not mean-start at the beginning, and go word by word; … Again, I read the material last Friday so I may have to re-read to really know what I was thinking. AppendPDF Pro 6.3 Linux 64 bit Aug 30 2019 Library 15.0.4 ( Log Out /  38 0 obj Good response, Tracey (5). Examples of this type of reading are: history books, cooking recipes, newspaper articles, and even chemical and algebraic formulas. A particular stance determines the proportion or mix of public and private elements of sense that fall within the scope of the reader’s selective attention. endobj Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. endobj Efferent reading main focus is on another person’s opinion and meaning of the text. purpose for reading texts determines which stance we assume. endobj It gives a learning experience. 35 0 obj it can re- duce a story to … Aesthetic Reading by: Terran Greene How to teach Aesthetic Reading: Read and listen to plays, poems and stories. The academic Louise Rosenblatt differentiates two separate modes in the experience of reading: the efferent and the aesthetic. In chapter two, two kinds of reading are discussed: efferent and aesthetic. 34 0 obj I.e. 26 0 obj efferent stance has its primary emphasis in the abil- ity to acquire and retrieve information. endobj However, readers may also experience stances at the extreme ends of the <>stream 1 0 obj application/pdf Appligent AppendPDF Pro 6.3 ( Log Out /  What can be quantified •.. becomes often the guide to what is taught, tested, or researched" (Rosenblatt, 1982, p. 274). 40 0 obj Here you are reading to absorb information. <>15]/P 21 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> A Comparison of Aesthetic and Efferent Reading Strategies of College Students STANCE, NAVIGATION, AND READER RESPONSE IN EXPOSITORY HYPERTEXT 5 aesthetic and efferent poles, where an efferent stance involves a reading goal tied to subsequent action and an aesthetic stance focuses on a lived-through experience of the reading act (Rosenblatt, 1994, 2004). 28 0 obj <>4]/P 6 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> endobj endobj 6 0 obj <> ( Log Out /  2021-03-22T12:15:54-07:00 Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. On the most basic level efferent reading often encompasses the goal of gaining information from the text. Efferent Reading Stance of Hausa Popular Romance Novels EUROPEAN ACADEMIC RESEARCH - Vol. Although the attention of the reader is the determining factor, the efferent appears to take on characteristics of careful structure and definitive parameters, whereas, in contrast, the aesthetic seems to involve more of the imagination. 27 0 obj 31 0 obj Here, the reader is not interested in the rhythms of the language or the prose style but is focused on obtaining a piece of information. endobj Definition of Efferent Stance: Refers to the readiness to respond to a text with the purpose of a later event. What is Efferent Stance? endobj <>11]/P 20 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> 2 0 obj 56 0 obj The reading event must fall somewhere in a continuum, determined by whether the reader adopts what I term a predominantly aesthetic stance or a predominantly efferent stance. VI, Issue 12 / March 2019 6833 Surrayya expressed her view on the efferent reading stance of the romance novels as: Romance reading part of my life if I came back from Islamic extra moral class in the evening. In their study, Cox 37 0 obj Efferent reading: reading to "take away" particular bits of information. In efferent reading, a reader's 'attention is focused primarily on what will remain as the residue after the reading' (Rosenblatt, 1978, p. 23), and thus he/ she focuses mostly on the public referents of meaning. x��XYo�F~ׯX�4��>� H|q�i�>NQ0%��D�G��w�KJ\Y�m� � �di5;�7�|����L��D/_��e����*��W����y�`MA�EZ�B�B���&�)�0��F(�?�3���ov���p��t|8��@���l�#�s�VXX��`�뿥�6&��m4�&����[��4(:�O~G��=��O��b��Q/ʆ_�Y~����D�q��-_��2.��"�V�s�l�P�i�B���ܡ��c�c*� Our author maintains, however, that  “implicit in this distinction between the two stances of the reader, the two directions in which he focuses his attention, is recognition that the same text may be read either efferently or aesthetically”  (25). When it is applied to literature, however. Examples are; manuals and textbooks. It is impor- tant to note that the efferent stance is completely appropriate in the reading of content materials. <><>19 20]/P 21 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> endobj and stance influences the act of reading before, during, and after a book is opened.‖ Stance determines the reader in makes meaning of the text. <>17]/P 21 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> %PDF-1.7 %���� The aesthetic mode appraises the rhetorical techniques and qualitative experience presented in the text. <>27]/P 25 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> endobj 1 The efferent 2 mode attempts to identify and collect points of information from the text. I’m a little confused by your question there in the final paragraph. If these shades of gray exist, what is the real purpose of categorizing reading as associated with text? what she calls “stances”—for reading: the “efferent” or the “aesthetic.” The efferent stance deals more with “the cognitive, the referential, the factual, the analytic, the logical, the quantitative aspects of meaning,” while the aes-thetic stance deals more with “the sensuous, the affective, the emotive, the When approaching a text from an efferent stance, readers are: True. The Efferent stance is usually taken with expository text that offers content information and questions that ask for an Efferent response require students to remember and analyze and descriptions, sequences, and cause and effect (pages 223-224). The main purpose of this study is to investigate the perceived and actual reading stances among learners when they read a novel. Efferent reading involves what remains after the reading is completed, such as information and facts, or solutions to a problem. Previous Reading Response 11 to Manguel “Learning to Read” and “The Missing First Page” Next Reading Response 13 to Manguel “Picture Reading” and “Being Read To”. their own background knowledge, experiences, skills, and cultural position. The author has indicated that most types of reading hover between efferent and aesthetic. Efferent vs. [39 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R 47 0 R 48 0 R 49 0 R 50 0 R 52 0 R 53 0 R 54 0 R] Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. What is important to note at this point is the fact that one same text can cause different readers to employ different reading … an efferent stance the reader’s main interest is in acquiring and retaining information after it is read, while the reader’s purpose in an aesthetic stance is to experience 1 If your question is “What is the benefit of distinguishing between an efferent stance and an aesthetic stance?”, I would say that it can clarify purpose for students if they know what they are to do. Aesthetic reading, on the other hand, tends more toward animation and the reader’s involvement in what he is living through during his relationship with a particular text. That is quite time consuming, but it’s what works for me and what I’ll need to do to get the meaning. Rosenblatt distinguishes between the efferent stance, in which the reader is primarily concerned with what he will carry away as information from the text, and the aesthetic stance, in which the reader focuses primarily upon the experience lived through during the reading. jg�%��F�0.�l��������9OVV��I�8���g�%�l9O%�e�s 5�u��TA�0:0[���uԮS���1����h��Z?$Q��N��9Qj�mCe�)��xG�6���I�p�w����e��EV����H�MR�ӤL��s lA�\6. endobj ( Log Out /  According to Rosenblatt, the stance lies in the reader, not in the text. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Hence the term efferent, meaning to “carry away”. Characteristics of a Strategic Reader I took a rest for an hour, It is impor tant to note that the efferent stance is completely appropriate in the reading of content materials. Readers who employ this stance are often only interested in answering the assigned questions about the text. When it is applied to literature, however, it can re duce a story to a mere collection of facts to be memorized and retrieved. In this type of reading it is all about what one carry away from the text. The efferent stance focuses on information carried away at the end of the reading, whereas the aesthetic stance focuses on the reader’s thoughts and feelings during the reading itself. 55 0 obj On the other hand, aesthetic reading allows the reader to live through the text. endobj We’re aesthetic animals, too. Recent studies have suggested that literature components benefit students in language acquisition and reading in general, yet reading for enjoyment is arguable since most of the students admit reading is done for examination purposes. An efferent stance indicates the reader is directing his attention toward the information that is to be taken away during a reading event. Yes, I can see that now. However, the two stances are not mutually exclusive. It also helps sort of the kinds of texts that tend to cue one sort of stance over another. <> <>31]/P 26 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> endobj The efferent stance is best used when reading nonfiction. Regardless of the reading purpose, adoption of efferent, aesthetic and critical stances is vital and believed to influence the reading process. }�x�sP�x�L�et�\�7��X�j��OI, A Comparison of Aesthetic and Efferent Reading Strategies of College Students. And it can help students see that literature is an art form best viewed from an aesthetic posture rather than an efferent one. <>stream endobj reader with a predominantly efferent stance may pay some attention to qualitative overtones while a reader with a predominantly aesthetic stance may focus on some cognitive elements. Rosenblatt considers most reading as "hovering" near the middle of the continuum (p. 21). OK. 16 0 obj <> Reading stance is the position the reader takes when reading a text. Although researchers routinely acknowledge stance as a continuum and em- <>1]/P 14 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> Efferent reading is when you read something to be instructed. endobj Efferent reading main focus is on another person’s opinion and meaning of the text. In reader response theory, stance divided into two kinds of stance. <> <>/Metadata 2 0 R/Outlines 5 0 R/Pages 3 0 R/StructTreeRoot 6 0 R/Type/Catalog/ViewerPreferences<>>> Julie Schnell reading purpose, adoption of efferent, aesthetic and critical stances is vital and believed to influence the reading process. endobj The digest next differentiates between the efferent stance, in which the reader is primarily concerned with what he or she will carry away as information from the text, and the aesthetic stance, in which the reader focuses primarily upon the experience lived through during the reading. Efferent reading involves what remains after the reading is completed, such as information and facts, or solutions to a problem. 2021-03-22T12:15:54-07:00 Prince 12.5 (www.princexml.com) Transactional Reader Response Theory By Nasrullah Mambrol on October 28, 2016 • ( 1). He can take either the position of an efferent or aesthetic reader depending on the nature of text he reads. Examples of this type of reading are: history books, cooking recipes, newspaper articles, and  even chemical and algebraic formulas. Create a sketch to stretch or readers theater activity to animate a novel. The efferent stance is that appropriate to one seeking information. includes the efferent (Latin for “to carry away”) stance, which involves a more literal reading with the goal of extracting information, and the aesthetic stance, which is a more emotional reading, with a focus on the journey a reader takes during the act of reading. between efferent and aesthetic reading, described a third reading stance I named “defer ent” to designate the tendency of struggling student readers to defer their interpretations of texts to The efferent stance is appropriate for informational texts or when a text is to be analyzed according to some type of outside structure or criteria. 5 0 obj On the other hand, Efferent reading is done primarily for the gathering of information. While effective, efferent reading is an important aspect of learning, students also need to be allowed to develop aesthetic reading skills … I find that if I read the chapter through, and then read it again ALOUD, and then a third time in particularly to note my highlightings, I can finally put it all together. 33 0 obj that readers have two main positions or purposes in reading—the efferent stance, where readers focus on the information in a text, and the aesthetic stance, where readers focus on the experi-ence they have with a text. signal: adopt the efferent stance. endobj I wrote this last Friday, but I think I must have meant that since it might be difficult to categorize the responses, what would be the ultimate benefit of (as related to students) of doing this. This article describes a third, deferent stance of reading that many reading a textbook for the purpose of being tested on it. Information features in textbooks or in historical pieces is best understood by cognitively understand the meaning or “carrying” the information “away” from the text. The reader needs language to be clear and easy to understand. efferent stance has its primary emphasis in the abil ity to acquire and retrieve information. endobj uuid:c401f324-b0d5-11b2-0a00-001487010000 Even so, only one study (Cox & Many, 1989) has investigated the relationship between a reader's stance and level of understanding of literary works. 2021-03-22T12:15:54-07:00 <> <>/MediaBox[0 0 612 792]/Parent 58 0 R/Resources<>/Font<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageC]/XObject<>>>/StructParents 0/Tabs/S/Type/Page>> endstream I’m finally beginning to get my mind wrapped around Rosenblatt. <>22]/P 6 0 R/Pg 40 0 R/S/Link>> 3 0 obj