t bing 009621 table of content

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface

i

Acknowledgements

ii

Abstract

iv

Table of Contents

v

List of Tables

vii

List of Appendices

viii

Chapter I Introduction

1

1.1 Background of the Research

1

1.2 Purposes of the Research

5

1.3 Research Questions

5

1.4 Significance of the Research

6

1.5 Organization of the Thesis

7

Chapter II Theoretical Review

9

2.1 Reading

9

2.2 Text, Reader, and Transaction

14

2.3 Reader Response

16

2.4 Literature

20

2.5 Related Research Findings

22

Chapter III Methodology

25

3.1 Research Design

25

3.2 Research Sites

26

3.3 Participants of the Research

27

3.4 Characteristics of the Participants

28

3.5 Data Collection Techniques

37

3.6 Data Analysis

39

3.7 Short Description of the Novels of Harry Potter

41

Chapter IV Data Analysis, Findings, and Discussion

43

4.1 Classification of the Data

44

4.2 Analysis of the Data, Findings, and Discussion

45

4.2.1 The Students’ Responses to the Novels of Harry Potter

45

4.2.2 Similar Response to the Novels of Harry Potter

48

4.2.3 Different Response to the Novels of Harry Potter

50

4.2.4 Factors Influencing the Students’ Reading Habit

52

Chapter V Conclusions and Suggestions

56

Bibliography

58

LIST OF TABLES

Tables

3.1 The Measure of Reader Stance towards a Literary Work
on an Efferent to Aesthetic Continuum

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4.1 The Students’ Responses to the Novels of Harry Potter

45

4.2 Similar Response to the Novels of Harry Potter

46

4.3 Different Response to the Novels of Harry Potter

47

4.4 Factors Influencing the Students’ Reading Habit

48

4.5 Factors Influencing the Students’ Reading Habit

48