Individuals who read more tend to have stronger verbal skills than those who read less. Interestingly, what you readmaymake a difference. Past studies have found that reading narrative fiction, but not expository nonfiction, predicts verbal ability. Why this difference exists is not known. Here we investigate one possibility: whether fiction texts contain more of the words typically evaluated b...

Following the evolution of documentary and transformation representation based on development image technologies, immersive endows nonfiction audiovisual genre with new qualities. In this context, their differentiating characteristics are identified described, adapting study methods to nature such productions. Through a filmic analysis 30 documentaries complementary case study, we present first...

Previous studies have suggested that fiction book reading has a stronger positive effect on vocabulary development than nonfiction. In this study, we examined this phenomenon in terms of word appearance information in fiction (story texts), nonfiction (explanation texts), and web text using latent semantic analysis (LSA). In a human experiment with Japanese undergraduates, we replicated fiction...

Modalities of communication for human beings are gradually increasing in number with the advent of new forms of technology. Many human beings can readily transition between these different forms of communication with little or no effort, which brings about the question: How similar are these different communication modalities? To understand technology’s influence on English communication, four ...