Die leser as tipologiese kriterium by die seleksie van goeie gewilde Afrikaanse prosatekste vir nie-Afrikaanssprekendes

[摘要] The preamble to this research was of a practical nature, arising from aneed in a teaching situation and leading to the questions: Do suitableprose texts exist in Afrikaans which could be read with adults learningAfrikaans who are not students of literature? Will reading these textscontribute to language learning? What is the reader's role in therealization of a prose text? These questions necessitated theidentification of the role and preference of the reader as regards aprose text - from a literary theoretical and a psycholinguistic pointof view.The primary aim is to investigate the reader as a typological criterionfor the selection of popular prose texts of good quality for non-Afrikaansspeakers. To make the study viable it needs to rest on twopillars: theory and practice. It is hoped that a contribution willbe made to the development of a workable model for the description,selection and evaluation of Afrikaans prose texts to be applied in aspecific teaching situation.Chapter one describes the objectives and the research plan. Thetheoretical component comprises the following: Chapter two, which is adiscussion of the school of thought among literary theorists known asreception theory and its contribution to the reader's role. Chapterthree considers the contribution which reading, and particularly thepart played by the reader, makes toward language learning. Chapterfour examines the reader's theoretical criteria for popular prose ofgood quality. Furthermore it identifies certain texts - novels andshort stories - selected from a total of one hundred and twenty prosetexts published after 1975 which meet these criteria. Chapter fivedescribes the texts of the four popular works which were selected forthe empirical research into reader response . This is based upon Eco'smodel for access to text interpretation which serves as a control forthe actual reader response of the respondents.The practical component comprises the following: Chapter six describesthe method for the compilation of questionnaires and the experimentalprocedure. Chapter seven discusses the results of the responses ofrespondents at an intermediate and an advanced level respectively, tothe Afrikaans short story. Chapter eight describes the procedure whichwas followed in the reception study undertaken to determine thereader's desire to continue reading the novels on the basis of thefirst chapters. Chapter nine discusses these reader responses inadvanced readers of Afrikaans.In Chapter ten the following central conclusions are reached:Although the implied reader remains the model, the real readerdetermines the reception of a text as well as its applicabilityin certain teaching situations. Eco's model appears to beuseful for text description and for an analysis of text access.Reading prose texts for understandingmeaningful contribution to languageextensive language input it provides.and relaxation makes aacquisition due to theDue to certain distinguishing characteristics of popular proseof good quality, it is considered appropriate to read such prosewith non-Afrikaans speakers.The empirical research provided systematic data concerningreception and evaluation of texts which give rise to teachingimplications and reveal facts about reading as such, reader'spreferences and aspects of text selection.On the whole, the research clearly indicates that the reader is thesingle most meaningfulidentifies the readerprose texts.element in the whole reading process and itas the determining factor in the selection of prose texts.

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