About Reading

This section includes summaries of the following:

• Recent consensus on the reading process: Comprehension processes
• The role of metacognition: Reading and Metacognition
• The role of motivation: Reading and Motivation
• Possible differences between the reading of literary texts and the reading of expository texts
  • Zwaan's Model of Literary Comprehension
  • Rosenblatt's Transactional Theory
  • Vipond & Hunt's Point-driven Reading
  • Miall and Kuiken's Model of Literary Response

Other models to consider:

• Miall's Affective Comprehension (http://cogprints.org/688/1/Beyond_s.htm)
• Also, see Miall and Kuiken's site on the use of empirical research to study literary responses: https://sites.ualberta.ca/~dmiall/reading/