The study focused on the use of video clips as instructional material and its impact learning Creative Non-Fiction among Humanities Social Sciences students in Subic National High School. researchers used an experimental research design that involved a control group with total 60 participants. utilized researcher-made pre-test post-test survey questionnaire. results both showed significant incr...

The paper reports on a study where three print articles, three television documentaries, and three Web sites by the National Geographic Society were compared, to see what constitutes linearity, and whether nonlinearity takes the place of linearity in Web media.Devices of transition, disposition, and linking are studied, as well as aspects of narration. The Web sites proved to be linked in a man...

Title of dissertation: THE EFFECTS OF PARENT-LED READ-ALOUDS OF NONFICTION BOOKS ON FIRST-GRADERS’ VOCABULARY ACQUISITION AND MOTIVATION TO READ Rebecca April Gibson, Doctor of Philosophy, 2007 Dissertation directed by: Dr. Mariam Jean Dreher Department of Curriculum and Instruction This study investigated the effects of parent-led interactive read-alouds of nonfiction books on first-graders. E...

We describe the Story Intention Graph, a set of discourse relations designed to represent aspects of narrative. Compared to prior models, ours is a novel synthesis of the notions of goal, plan, intention, outcome, affect and time that is amenable to corpus annotation. We describe a collection project, DramaBank, which includes encodings of texts ranging from small fables to epic poetry and cont...