Description
Book SynopsisThis book brings together 18 theoretical and empirical chapters that analyse the role of emotion (expression, perception, processing) and identity (notions and representations, construction, conflict) in the process of learning a second language. Studies on the differences in emotionality between L1 and L2 suggest that in L2 there is an alteration that, in many cases, manifests itself as a decrease in the affective load, which can lead to a certain indifference to the emotional content transmitted and to a lesser involvement in communication. It is also known that emotion plays a fundamental role in the construction of identity in a second language in the shaping of the self that feels and communicates and in the ability to cope with the learning process.
Most of the studies have focused on the understanding of these issues in balanced bilingual speakers, but there is little evidence on their functioning in speakers with other degrees of proficiency (the case of second language learners) and on their role in the learning process. Better understanding this question is fundamental for the improvement of everything related to second language acquisition. We need new and innovative approaches that lead to more effective programs, increased interest in language learning and the consolidation of multilingual societies.
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
I. PROCESSING OF EMOTIONALITY IN LANGUAGES
The effects of emotionality on syntactic processing: neural and behavioral evidence
Isabel Fraga, Isabel Padrón, Carlos Acuña-Fariña
Acquisition, assessment and processing of emotional words in children
José Antonio Hinojosa, Lucía Sabater
Words and Emotions in Healthy and Pathological Aging
Olga Ivanova, Israel Martínez-Nicolás, Thide E. Llorente, José María Arana, Juan José García Meilán
The impact of language proficiency, cultural contact and attitudes on valence and arousal in Spanish as a second language
Ana Blanco Canales, Natividad Hernández Muñoz
The effect of language status, immersion and cultural integration level on the emotionality of emotion words in Spanish
Elisa Pérez-García
Processing Accented Speech in Foreign Language Learning: Support for Exemplar-based Memory Models in Spoken Language Processing
Allison M. Wilck, Jeanette Altarriba
Unconscious Attention and Facial Expressions in the Retrieval of L2 Lexical Memory
Carmen Rodríguez Castellano
II. EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION IN SECOND LANGUAGES
Writing about positive and negative topics in Spanish as a heritage or second language
Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Paloma Fernández-Mira
Emotions and identity in Linguistic Autobiographies to increase Critical Language Awareness of Spanish Heritage Speakers in the US
Eva Gómez García
¿Eres muy emocional? I don’t think so. How does language determine our emotional responses to everyday moral dilemmas?
Andreas Kyriakou, IriniMavrou
Expressing the cause of emotions in Spanish L1/L2: forms and meanings
Lucía Gómez Vicente
Gamification as a methodological strategy for the development of emotional competence in the Spanish as a foreign language classroom: academic self-efficacy, achievement emotions and language learning
Cristina González Ruiz, Ocarina Masid Blanco
III. EMOTIONALITY AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN L2 LEARNING
The perception of identity and emotionality in Spanish L2
Ana Blanco Canales, Marta F. Nogueroles López
Self-evaluation, self-assessment and self-concept in a native or foreign language
Irene Buttazzi, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Landaburu
"When I speak in Spanish, I’m not myself": the development of linguistic identity in learners of Spanish in non-immersion contexts
Álvaro Sesmilo
Linguistic identities and emotions in the construction and development of the language learner interself
Alberto Rodríguez-Lifante, Mari Mar Boillos
A performative language teaching approach in connection with emotion and identity
Susana Martín Leralta,Margarita Planelles Almeida, María Eugenia Flores
