Narrative process and its narrative mechanisms help the reader make sense of the way events happen in a story. Using repeating images in the text of a story is a method of narrative development.  In Shahnameh, dealing with the world and images it gives rise to is one of the central motives of the text. The narrator in different parts of the poem seems captivated by the image of the world and th...

this paper examines cases of the translator's presence in translated narrative texts. after reviewing the literature, hermans believes that a translated text belongs to the second voice which is always present in a translation. the paper elaborates, through some translated passages into persian, upon three cases of a translator's presence; namely, cases where the text’s orientation to...

Literature and Language Learning in the EFL Classroomconsists of nineteenchapters. The chapters of the book have been arranged into two parts: Part I, current issues and suggestions for new approaches (Chapters 1-6) and Part II, empirical and case studies (Chapters 7-19). The book takes multiple approaches to examine how literary texts can be incorporated into teaching practices inan EFLclassro...

Narrative-centered learning environments tightly integrate educational subject matter and interactive stories, where students serve as active participants in story-centric problem-solving scenarios. Embedding scaffolding within the storyline of a narrative-centered learning environment is a discreet approach to supporting studentsÕ learning processes without diminishing the motivational benefit...

The Narrative Explorer is an interactive web application for text visualization and analysis. The texts are visualized in the Narrative Explorer in two ways. The affective content of the text, quantified as the sentiment polarity of the sentences, is represented by a bar graph timeline. The co-occurrence of characters or concepts in the text is represented by a chord diagram. These visual repre...

Children with autism exhibit a deficit in the comprehension and creation of narrative which impacts their social world. Our ongoing research agenda is to find ways of developing interactive learning environments which enhance the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative and thus the social world. The study reported here involved 12 children in a longitudinal study which...

this study investigated the utilization of intertextuality in the fourth edition of the interchange book series for english as foreign language (efl) learners using fairclough’s (1992) framework. ten texts were randomly chosen among the reading passages of the interchange book series and later analyzed regarding intertextuality kinds and methods of reporting. findings indicated that two types o...

Deaf individuals have difficulties in comprehending written text, as well as oral language. As a consequence, learning from text is compromised in deaf individuals. We hypothesized that a transposition of the Italian Sign Language to its written counterpart could enhance signing deaf individuals’ comprehension and learning from text. We confirmed our prediction for comprehension and learning fo...