Pedagogy Apr 2015

Reading Communities in the Dickens Classroom

Susan Cook ; Elizabeth Henley

Abstract

This study exposed a major author studies class to both a reading community modeled after those popular in Charles Dickens’s own time and a digital reading community. Students gravitated toward the more traditional oral reading community over the digital project, indicating an unexpected interest in older forms of communication.

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Pedagogy
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2015-04-01
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10.1215/15314200-2845065
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