%0 Journal Article 
%A Kokkola, Lydia
%T “Only connect!”: creating connections when reading fiction and digital texts
%D 2015
%@ 1989-0796
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/25398
%X The paper draws on work within neuroscience as well as literacy education and cognitive literary studies to
examine differences between the deep reading of traditional narratives and the reading of digital media. Since
game-playing, hyper-links and extended novel reading can affect how the brain develops, teachers need to
understand how they can enable their pupils to develop the neural pathways that make flexibility of reading style
possible. This means engaging with the impressive array of research available within the neurosciences on
learning to read. The particular capacity examined is connectivity. The nature of instant access to anyone who is
on-line and the use of hyperlinks are contrasted with the connectivity with fictional others proffered by the deep
reading of novels, specifically fantasy series. The article concludes by calling for more sustained classroom
reading as well as support for digital literacies.

%K Digital literacies
%K Reading
%K Cognitive literary studies
%K Neuoroscience
%K Alfabetización digital
%K Estudios literarios cognitivos
%K Alfabetización
%K Neuorociencia
%K Filología
%K Philology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala