| Students entering the "Composition and Literature" classroom find themselves presented with a number of challenges as they learn to analyze literature beyond reader comprehension. The online learner experiences even more obstacles while approaching an often-difficult curriculum without the guidance of a residential instructor. For this reason, the online learner must adapt and develop autonomy in learning. Reader Response literary critics place great emphasis on the reader while determining meaning in a text, and Louise Rosenblatt explored the connection between the reader and the text in her Transactional Theory. To assist online learners in their endeavor, this study aimed to determine a relationship between students' learning styles with the Felder Index of Learning Styles and students' response to literature with the Literary Response Questionnaire. Using a Chi-square, a statistically very strong relationship was found between learning style and approach to literature as well as gender and approach to literature.;Keywords: college composition, composition and literature, higher education, correlation study, Felder ILS, LQR, Literary Response Questionnaire, online, adult learner. |
