Analysis of approaches to studying literature using Dazai's short story "Hashire Merosu" Hikaru KATSUTA and Kazuaki IIDA According to reader response theory, a teacher's role is not to teach a particular interpretation or response, but to scaffold the students' reader responses. This study investigates that role. For the analysis, I observed lessons (19 hours of data) of junior high school third-grade students. Based on grounded theory, the results revealed that teachers ho scaffold students'

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... ader responses typically play ve roles. Further ore, I found a relationship bet een the students' task and the speci c role adopted by the teacher. Ho ever, hen engaged in conversation ith students, teachers dyna ically alternate a ong the ve roles.