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Unit 3: Responding to and Creating Texts in Contexts
Quick questions on Reading practices and making meaning: WACE Year 12 English Unit 3
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What is the reader brings a repertoire?Show answer
The repertoire is everything a reader carries to a text. It includes the genres they already know, the cultural references they can decode, the values they hold, and the situations they have lived through. A reader who knows the conventions of satire reads an exaggerated claim as a joke; a reader who does not reads it as a lie. Neither misread the words.
What is reading happens in a situation?Show answer
Reading also takes a place and a purpose. The same article is read differently when skimmed on a phone, studied for an exam, or shared in anger. Purpose shapes attention, and attention shapes meaning. When you analyse how a text is read, the situation of reading is part of the explanation, not background noise.
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