Peace-loving-themed short stories have some potential to reconstruct national characters. Such characters are paramount in response the lack of tolerance during millennial era. can be implemented through various modes, one them being short-story appreciation. When outbreak COVID-19 pandemic hit Indonesia, government suggested shifting schools online learning. One learning platforms used Indones...

Abstract The present study was carried out to investigate the effect of short stories on students’ reading comprehension, vocabulary power and attitude towards the skill and the new instructional materials. The participants of the study were 120 grade 9 students of Dilla Secondary and preparatory school. In order to gather data for the study, pre- and posttest of reading comprehension, pre and ...

The article deals with the images of eccentric characters in short stories “Jerry and Molly Sam” (1972), “Fat” (1971), “They Are Not Your Husband” (1973), “Neighbors” “The Idea” (1972) written by an outstanding American writer second half 20th century R. Carver. definitions concepts “eccentricity” “grotesque” are given, fundamental difference between “eccentric” related “jester” “rogue” is high...

Twitter is often the most up-to-date source for finding and tracking breaking news stories. Therefore, there is considerable interest in developing filters for tweet streams in order to track and summarize stories. This is a non-trivial text analytics task as tweets are short, and standard text similarity metrics often fail as stories evolve over time. In this paper we examine the effectiveness...

OBJECTIVE The present study examined mentalizing capacities as well as the relative implication of mentalizing in the comprehension of ironic and sincere assertions among 30 older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 30 healthy control (HC) subjects. METHOD Subjects were administered a task evaluating mentalizing by means of short stories. A verbal irony comprehension task, in whic...

We tested the hypothesis that threatening situations enhance creativity. 60 participants viewed a series of photographs and rated them on level of threat. They then wrote two short stories: one based on the photograph they rated as most threatening, and the other based on the photograph they rated as least threatening. The stories were rated for level of creativity. Paired samples t-testså reve...

Recall accuracy for speech-degraded short stories was assessed in young adults with normal hearing sensitivity. Stories were presented in the clear, or in noise vocoded, low-pass filtered, or background noise conditions of varying difficulty. Propositional scoring was used to determine the accuracy of participants’ recall. No significant effect on short story recall accuracy was observed for th...

Stories are an important part of children’s social and cognitive development and are an integral part of their lives. In this paper, we share a short synopsis of Mobile Stories, one of the narrative systems we have developed with and for children. We also share lessons we have learned while designing, developing, and evaluating Mobile Stories. In designing and developing narrative systems for c...