European Conference on Reading Mons 31.7.— Katri Sarmavuori

What is it? — thinking, reasoning — psycholinguistic guessing game (Goodman 1987) — radical, revolutionary (Bloom 2001) — poaching (Lyons 2010) — R = D x C (Lundberg 1989) — information seeking, creating meaning — dancing with an unknown partner — dancing with an invisible partner (Blanchot 2003)

Reading — meaning — aim — target — studying — amusement — skill

— generates ideas and stimulates creativity: readers think creatively as they bring the reader’s text alive through their imagination — stimulates the imagination and aids intellectual development helps develop a critical and thinking mind — aids personal growth and emotional development — helps us to shape, store and reflect on our past and our future, by experiencing the life of other periods — gives a better understanding of human nature and insight into life; offers role models — offers cultural and ethnic awareness and understanding of moral codes /ethics /values — offers social awareness of different regions, communities and peer groups, and understanding of the complexities of relationships — enables the reader to see things from other angles, to appreciate and understand other people’s problems, aiding tolerance and understanding (Elkin, Train & Denham 2003, 12)

Understanding of reading — experience of life — earlier knowledge — age — susceptibility — different theories

Understanding theories — hermeneutic and newcritical tradition — reception theory — transaction theory — envisioning — instructional science of mother tongue — not literature science

Analysis and interpretation

Physiology brain eyes Reading pathway in the brain (Wolfe & Nevills 2004, 24)

Reading pathway (Wolfe & Nevills 2004, 24)

Language phonological awareness vocabulary

Tool and genre — book — webb — fiction — informational literature — newspaper

Methods to teach to read — synthetic — analytic — mixed methods

Reading strategies Eine Lust zu lesen Aimer lire

Harold Bloom The Western Canon (1994): William Shakespeare Dante (Alighieri) Geoffrey Chaucer Miquel de Cervantes Michel de Montaigne Molière John Milton Samuel Johnson Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Wordsworth Jane Austen Walt Whitman Charles Dickinson George Eliot Leo Tolstoi Henrik Ibsen Sigmund Freud Marcel Proust Virginia Woolf Franz Kafka Jorge Luis Borges Pablo Neruda Fernando Pessoa Samuel Beckett

Canon, classics Shakespeare: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet Kalevala Runeberg: Fänrik Ståls sägner Topelius: Birch and star Aleksis Kivi: Seven brothers Gogol: Overcoat

Ibsen: Doll house Minna Canth: Priest’s family Strindberg: Miss Julie Kianto: Red line Juhani Aho: Juha Sillanpää: Silja Mika Waltari: Sinuhe, Egyptian Orwell: Animal farm Steinbeck: Pearl

Camus: L’étranger, Stranger Väinö Linna: Unknown soldier Tove Jansson: Moominpapa and the sea Veikko Huovinen: Havukka-aho’s philosopher Arto Paasilinna: Year of hare, Le lièvre de Vatanen