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It draws on “enactivist” theory of languaging, an approach to language that focuses on its use as social actions to enact and build relationships with others (Cowley, 2011; Linell, 2009). The focus is on “in-between” meanings constituted by “shared intentionality” (Di Paolo & De Jaegher, 2012) in readers’ transactions with authors ’ portrayals of events in texts as well as in responding to uses of languaging in characters’ interactions. Analysis of four students ’ rewriting events from the novel indicated that they drew on their responses to the novel to portray tensions in their characters’ interactions as well as their own experiences of coping with these tensions. Students also benefitted from collaboratively creating their narratives through sharing their different perspectives on events in the texts, suggesting the value of using collaborative rewriting activities to enhance students’ literary responses and awareness of how languaging functions to enact relationships.  \nKey words: reader response, narratives, events, storywriting, languaging, sense-making, interactions, collaboration, composition.  \nRichard Beach is Professor Emeritus of Literacy Education at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on literary response, digital writing, and uses of language. He is co-author of Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents: Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference ([http://climatechangeela.pbworks.com](http://climatechangeela.pbworks.com)); Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 3rd ed. ([http://teachingliterature.pbworks.com](http://teachingliterature.pbworks.com)); Understanding and Creating Digital Texts: An ActivityBased Approach ([http://digitalwriting.pbworks.com](http://digitalwriting.pbworks.com)); Literacy Tools in the Classroom: Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12 ([http://l](http://l)[iteracytooluses.pbworks.com](iteracytooluses.pbworks.com)), and High School Students’ Competing Social Worlds: Negotiating Identities and Allegiances through Responding to Multicultural Literature. He served as organizing editor for the annual Annotated Bibliography of Research for Research in the Teaching of English from 2003 to 2012, former President of the National Conference on Research in Language, and former President of the Literacy Research Association.  \n􀀡􀀡􀀢  \nDialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal | [http://dpj.pitt.edu](http://dpj.pitt.edu)  \n[DOI: 10.5195/dpj.2017.181 | Vol. 5](DOI: 10.5195/dpj.2017.181 | Vol. 5) (2017)  \nA37  \nStudents’ Use of Languaging in Rewriting Events from The Things They Carried  \nRichard Beach  \nIntroduction  \nIn responding to literature, students often engage in literary response writing activities based on the instruction to interpret the meaning of a text according to “what the text says explicitly.” Such guidance may lead to students adopting of a “strong text” model (Brandt, 1990, p. 35) . However, adopting this “strong text” model, which comes with an implicit assumption that the meaning of a text resides “in”the text, positions students to adopt a relatively passive stance to extract this predetermined meaning. Fostering students’ construction of their own meanings through a dialogic, sense-making transaction between themselves and the text (Rosenblatt, 1978; Masny, 2014) avoids their adopting a passive stance in responding to a text.  \nThis reader-text transaction is mediated through language. To understand how readers use language in this transaction for responding to texts and rewriting events from a text, in this article, I draw on enactivisit theories of “languaging”(Cowley, 2011; Linell, 2009) that ","cbCailKCziMa5c6P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCailKCziMa5c6P","pdf",297798,"English","# Introduction\n# The Teachers’Response and Rewriting Activities","[{\"question\":\"How do the students use rewriting to respond to the novel’s events?\",\"answer\":\"Students respond to events in The Things They Carried and then collaboratively rewrite them into their own narrative versions, drawing on their reactions to portray tensions in characters’ interactions and their own coping experiences.\"},{\"question\":\"What theoretical lens guides the analysis of languaging?\",\"answer\":\"The study uses enactivist theory of “languaging,” treating language as social action that enacts relationships and produces shared intentionality in readers’ transactions with texts and characters.\"},{\"question\":\"What role does collaboration play in students’ narrative creation?\",\"answer\":\"Collaboration helps students benefit from sharing different perspectives on events, which supports stronger literary responses and awareness of how languaging functions to enact relationships.\"}]","Students’ Use of Languaging in Rewriting Events from The Things They Carried | PDF"]