This article examines a celebrated documentary made for Italian state TV in 1968 and transmitted in 1969 to an audience of millions. The programme - The Gardens of Abel - looked at changes introduced by the radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia in an asylum in the north-east of Italy (Gorizia). The article examines the content of this programme for the first time, questions some of the claims th...

reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

This study explores the integration of the arts into the teaching of science nonfiction texts during literacy instruction. Sixty-one elementary students (15 second graders, 25 third graders, and 21 fifth graders) attending schools of differing socio-economic levels participated in this study. The study examined the effects of arts-integration on student content knowledge, engagement level, and ...

Abstract Reading fiction has been associated with improved social and imaginative reasoning that could lead to critical thinking. This observational study investigated the relationship between nonfiction exposure, narrative transportation, factors of thinking (critical disposition, epistemological orientation). Self-selecting participants ( N = 335) completed an online survey including author r...

This study investigated readers’ experiences of critical thinking and reading, comparing fiction nonfiction. As previous research has shown links between reading increased social cognitive capacities, such capacities are argued to be necessary for thinking, this sought explore a potentially unique relationship as distinct from In depth interviews were conducted with participants who self-identi...

Two life writers in the same family--one neurotypical, one autistic—converse about mountain of material they’ve produced: poems, memoir, essays, scholarship, and documentary film. Preferring to conceive their work as interdependent enmeshed, not bound by strictures identity politics thus separate or conflicting, they advance a neurocosmopolitan rhizomatous understanding self words. David James ...

A Corpus Linguistic Analysis The observation that individuals who read more have better verbal abilities is among one of the most robust findings in reading research. For example, a meta-analysis of 99 studies revealed moderate to strong correlations between reading, measured as lifetime print-exposure several different indices of linguistic competence (Mol & Bus, 2011). (As with all correlatio...

Although past research has explored the association between media of many forms (e.g., TV, music, advertising) and sexual socialization, books are 1 form of media that has largely been ignored with respect to this topic. The current study examined the relationship between lifetime exposure to different genres of text and sexual attitudes, including gender role stereotyping and sexual conservati...

Assessing women’s role in the audiovisual industry provides us with negative data regarding number of women industry, which are also confirmed when factors such as their prominence or leadership these projects considered. A quantitative and qualitative analysis was thus undertaken based on need to examine this problem depth determine what is happening documentary nonfiction genre, has exhibited...