Looking at Reading: Adolescents' Perceptions of Readerly Characters in High School Television Series
Key findings of “Looking at reading”: ABSTRACT Despite growing concerns about declining reading motivation, research on adolescent literacy has rarely examined how readerly characters in mainstream media shape young people's perceptions of reading.
Jasmijn Bloemert, Jeroen Dera
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Unveiling the neural mechanisms of supernatural fiction comprehension using fNIRS. [PDF]
Xu X, Jia C, Chen K, Chen L.
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Investigation of self-regulation skills in children's picturebooks: a quantitative content analysis. [PDF]
Gümrükçü Bilgici B.
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IMPLICATION IN YOUNG ADULT NOVELS ABOUT THE GDR: HISTORICAL FICTION FOR A DEMOCRATIC FUTURE
ABSTRACT This article examines the pedagogical potential of young adult literature about East Germany to help readers reflect on the legacies of authoritarian rule and questions of responsibility, accountability and agency. Drawing on Michael Rothberg's concept of the implicated subject, I argue that young adult literature exploring implication offers ...
Kristin Rebien
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Stylistic variation across English translations of Chinese science fiction: Ken Liu versus ChatGPT. [PDF]
Zhou P, Cheng J.
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ABSTRACT Set in the fictional Austrian border town of Dunkelblum in the historically momentous summer of 1989, Eva Menasse's novel Dunkelblum (2021) is a polyphonic narrative recounting stories of the town's ‘sogenannten kleinen Leute’ and revolving around the dark core of a Nazi‐era atrocity.
Kylie Giblett
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ABSTRACT To investigate how imagination partakes in shaping the spaces in which we think and live, and what processes could help imagining social realities differently, the present work proposes an interweaving of peace and literature. The analysis of Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment and Patrick Süskind's Perfume is founded upon an ...
Nikolena Nocheva
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Anime tourists traveling to Japan: pilgrimage behaviors patterns and the formation of homologous emotions. [PDF]
Zheng R, Zhen S, Cai A, Li S, Liu H.
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Vernacular Futurism: How Persian Language Users Imagine AI
ABSTRACT Public discourse about artificial intelligence increasingly unfolds through compressed forecasts, moral warnings, and everyday speculation circulating at platform speed. This study examines how Persian language users on X construct and contest AI futures, analyzing a corpus of 4741 posts collected between January 2023 and December 2025, with ...
Arthur Asa Berger, Ehsan Shahghasemi
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Immediate and Maintained Effects of Explicit and Contextualized Narrative and Expository Language Intervention for Children with Developmental Language Disorder. [PDF]
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