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A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices

Mostly used in extensive reading programmes, graded readers (GRs), which come under the umbrella of language learner literature (LLL), are weighted with the obligation to engage second language (L2) learners. Many publishers of GRs focus on strong plots using reduced language code to achieve this...

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Main Author: June, Chiang Kai Sing
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Language:English
Published: 2019
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BJ71-1185 History and Systems (including individual ethical philosophers)
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spelling my.usm.eprints.48764 http://eprints.usm.my/48764/ A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices June, Chiang Kai Sing BJ71-1185 History and Systems (including individual ethical philosophers) Mostly used in extensive reading programmes, graded readers (GRs), which come under the umbrella of language learner literature (LLL), are weighted with the obligation to engage second language (L2) learners. Many publishers of GRs focus on strong plots using reduced language code to achieve this objective; however, there are stakeholders who recognise the importance of retaining good natural literary discourse. Rosenblatt's transactional reader response theory and Miall and Kuiken's foregrounding theory support the notion that stylistic devices have the capacity to create evocation in the reader which could heighten the aesthetic or pleasurable reading experience. Taking this into consideration, the study examined the effect of literariness in GRs for them to be considered good by investigating the extent of employment of selected stylistic devices in GRs that are considered good (awardwinning GRs) and that are considered less good (non-award winning GRs) to determine the importance of literariness in making successful GRs. The study also compared Chinese L2 learners’ aesthetic response towards texts without and with selected stylistic devices . As such, the study was a two-phased investigation. To examine the GRs (phase one), a stylistic analysis was carried out to compare the occurrence of figures of speech, the selected style markers, in three award and six corresponding non-award winning texts. 2019-02 Thesis NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/48764/1/JUNE%20CHIANG%20KAI%20SING%20cut.pdf June, Chiang Kai Sing (2019) A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices. PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
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June, Chiang Kai Sing
A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
description Mostly used in extensive reading programmes, graded readers (GRs), which come under the umbrella of language learner literature (LLL), are weighted with the obligation to engage second language (L2) learners. Many publishers of GRs focus on strong plots using reduced language code to achieve this objective; however, there are stakeholders who recognise the importance of retaining good natural literary discourse. Rosenblatt's transactional reader response theory and Miall and Kuiken's foregrounding theory support the notion that stylistic devices have the capacity to create evocation in the reader which could heighten the aesthetic or pleasurable reading experience. Taking this into consideration, the study examined the effect of literariness in GRs for them to be considered good by investigating the extent of employment of selected stylistic devices in GRs that are considered good (awardwinning GRs) and that are considered less good (non-award winning GRs) to determine the importance of literariness in making successful GRs. The study also compared Chinese L2 learners’ aesthetic response towards texts without and with selected stylistic devices . As such, the study was a two-phased investigation. To examine the GRs (phase one), a stylistic analysis was carried out to compare the occurrence of figures of speech, the selected style markers, in three award and six corresponding non-award winning texts.
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title A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
title_short A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
title_full A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
title_fullStr A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
title_full_unstemmed A Stylistic Analysis Of Selected Graded Readers And Chinese Second Language Learners’ Aesthetic Response Towards Selected Stylistic Devices
title_sort stylistic analysis of selected graded readers and chinese second language learners’ aesthetic response towards selected stylistic devices
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