Literary responses in Spanish adolescents: Adaptation, validation, and analysis of the Literary Response Questionnaire

Muela-Bermejo, Diana (Universidad de Zaragoza) ; Mendoza-Cercadillo, Irene ; Hernández-Heras, Lucía (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: This study involves translating, cross‐culturally adapting, and validating the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ) for 413 Spanish adolescents. It explores the evolution of literary education in Spain and its alignment with the Reading Responses paradigm. The LRQ, adapted across various locations, is validated in Spanish through Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. The research analyzes reading responses in dimensions like Leisure Escape, Insight, Empathy, Story‐driven Reading, Concern with Author, Imagery Vividness, and Rejecting Literary Values. Findings reveal widespread indifference and rejection toward literary reading among the adolescents, along with a clear disapproval of the historicist‐authorial approach to literary education. Significant variations were identified based on students' gender, enrollment in a bilingual program, and notably, the number of books read per year. This underscores the significance of introducing literary reading practices in secondary education that align with the leisure preferences of adolescents, encouraging personal and experiential engagement with texts. This could materialize in the classroom the shift from a historicist to a reader‐centered approach suggested by the current Spanish curriculum.

Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.1002/jaal.1328

Año: 2024

Publicado en: JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT & ADULT LITERACY 68, 2 (2024), 82-93
ISSN: 1081-3004

Factor impacto JCR: 1.5 (2024)

Categ. JCR: EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH rank: 297 / 756 = 0.393 (2024) - Q2 - T2

Factor impacto SCIMAGO: 0.482 - Education (Q2)

Financiación: info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/S61-23R

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Didáctica Lengua y Liter. (Dpto. Didácticas Específicas)