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The transactional theory of reading views reading as a transaction between the reader, text, and context. It recognizes that meaning is constructed differently based on the particular reader, text, and context of the reading. A reader brings their feelings, attitudes, and purpose to a text, which leads to the meaning constructed. Teachers can facilitate more complex reading transactions by asking higher-level questions and designing activities that encourage readers to make their own meaning. Researchers who developed aspects of this theory include Rosenblatt, Dewey, Vygotsky, and Bates. A transactional model informs research by focusing on how humans transact with their environment to make meaning, and recommends guiding both efferent and aesthetic reading while teaching reading as an individual and

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Transactional Theory Powerpoint

The transactional theory of reading views reading as a transaction between the reader, text, and context. It recognizes that meaning is constructed differently based on the particular reader, text, and context of the reading. A reader brings their feelings, attitudes, and purpose to a text, which leads to the meaning constructed. Teachers can facilitate more complex reading transactions by asking higher-level questions and designing activities that encourage readers to make their own meaning. Researchers who developed aspects of this theory include Rosenblatt, Dewey, Vygotsky, and Bates. A transactional model informs research by focusing on how humans transact with their environment to make meaning, and recommends guiding both efferent and aesthetic reading while teaching reading as an individual and

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Transactional Theory/Model of

Reading
EDC565 Group Presentations -
Jen Moretti and Tara Walsh
Principles of a Transactional
Model of Reading
Reading is developing meaning from a combination of a
particular reader, at a particular time/context, with a particular
text. It is a transaction between the author, reader, and text.
Reading is a choosing activity. Readers bring feelings,
attitudes, expectations, and a purpose to each text, and this
leads to meaning, or evocation.
Our stance toward reading could be efferent (scientific, reading
for info) or aesthetic (artistic, feeling). Different texts lend
themselves toward one or the other, usually, but readers stance
determines the experience they will have with that text.
Teaching reading requires a teacher to raise questions that
grow more complex reading transactions, and construct and
facilitate activities in an environment that encourages the reader
to make meaning of their own.
Aligning Transactional Models of
Reading With Historical Eras
A. Sociocultural Learning Era of 1986-1995 and the Engaged
Learning Erra of 1996-Present

B. Sociocultural Learning:
a sociocultural, collaborative experience shaped by aesthetics;
a shared understanding of many rather than the private
knowledge of one (Alexander and Fox)

Engaged Learning:
meaning is made of a combination of physical, personal, social,
cultural factors chosen at a particular moment;
cognitive, aesthetic, and sociocultural elements work together to
make meaning (Alexander Fox)
Conditions that prompted
Transactional Models of Reading
Many students failing to thrive in explicit training programs.
Learning was now being acknowledged as individualistic.
General skepticism of formal, traditional, scientific knowledge.
Suspected as a tool of the government to dominate.
More attention to varied methods of instruction
Swing toward the natural/sociocultural view.
Rosenblatt taught 10 years of courses in literature and
composition. She also had a background in anthropology.
Influence of Neils Bohrs (1959) explanation that the observer is
part of the observation.

Leading Researchers of Transactional
Research in Reading
Louise Rosenblatt (created theory)
Dewey & Bentley (philosophers- Knowing and the Known
(1949) advanced the thought that learning wasnt an interaction
(2 separate things work together). It was a transaction (2 things
become 1 entity).
Vygotsky (social and cultural anthropologist-a word acquires its
sense from the context in which it appears)
Bates iceberg metaphor: public meaning of a word (dictionaries)
just the tip vs. private associations

How does a Transactional model
inform research in reading?
A. New Areas of Research Focus:
Human transaction with speaking, reading writing and the environment
Qualitative information and aesthetic aspects of reading, mainly various
components of meaning
Questions for Research:
How do humans make meaning? (This will help us understand how we
make meaning of transactions with text.)
How can we best support the aesthetic and efferent aspects of text
transactions equally?
B. Methodologies:
Most effective if a researcher plans and works with a classroom teacher in a
qualitative study.
Also, longitudinal studies and interdisciplinary studies are needed.
C. Instructional Recommendations:
Guide efferent and aesthetic aspects of reading equally.
Teach reading in terms of individual experiences and social interactions.

Visual of Transactional Theory
Reader
Text Time/Context
Meaning

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