Emotion and identity in second language learning

Ana Blanco Canales, Ph. D, is Associate Professor of Spanish Language at the University of Alcalá. Her research work focuses on the acquisition and learning of Spanish language (mother tongue or second language), and, more specifically, on the acquisition of phonological competence, metacognitive reflection and learning strategies, the construction of linguistic identity and the emotional resonance of languages. She is the head of the phonetics research network Fono. ELE and coordinator of the LEIDE research group (https://grupoleide.com/).Susana Martín Leralta, PhD from the University of Bielefeld, is currently Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Education at the University of Nebrija (Madrid), and lecturer at postgraduate level. Her research interests focus on the learning of Spanish as an additional language for migrants, the expression of emotions and the acquisition of communicative skills. She is a research member of the LAELE Group at Nebrija University (https://www.nebrija.com/investigacionuniversidad/grupo-laele/) and of the INMIGRA research network of the Community of Madrid.

• PrefaceIntroductionI. PROCESSING OF EMOTIONALITY IN LANGUAGESThe effects of emotionality on syntactic processing: neural and behavioral evidenceIsabel Fraga, Isabel Padrón, Carlos Acuña-FariñaAcquisition, assessment and processing of emotional words in childrenJosé Antonio Hinojosa, Lucía SabaterWords and Emotions in Healthy and Pathological AgingOlga Ivanova, Israel Martínez-Nicolás, Thide E. Llorente, José María Arana, Juan José García MeilánThe impact of language proficiency, cultural contact and attitudes on valence and arousal in Spanish as a second languageAna Blanco Canales, Natividad Hernández MuñozThe effect of language status, immersion and cultural integration level on the emotionality of emotion words in SpanishElisa Pérez-GarcíaProcessing Accented Speech in Foreign Language Learning: Support for Exemplar-based Memory Models in Spoken Language ProcessingAllison M. Wilck, Jeanette AltarribaUnconscious Attention and Facial Expressions in the Retrieval of L2 Lexical MemoryCarmen Rodríguez Castellano　II. EMOTIONAL COMMUNICATION IN SECOND LANGUAGESWriting about positive and negative topics in Spanish as a heritage or second languageClaudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez, Paloma Fernández-MiraEmotions and identity in Linguistic Autobiographies to increase Critical Language Awareness of Spanish Heritage Speakers in the USEva Gómez García¿Eres muy emocional? I don’t think so. How does language determine our emotional responses to everyday moral dilemmas?Andreas Kyriakou, IriniMavrouExpressing the cause of emotions in Spanish L1/L2: forms and meaningsLucía Gómez VicenteGamification 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 learningCristina González Ruiz, Ocarina Masid Blanco　III. EMOTIONALITY AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN L2 LEARNING　The perception of identity and emotionality in Spanish L2Ana Blanco Canales, Marta F. Nogueroles LópezSelf-evaluation, self-assessment and self-concept in a native or foreign languageIrene 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 contextsÁlvaro SesmiloLinguistic identities and emotions in the construction and development of the language learner interselfAlberto Rodríguez-Lifante, Mari Mar BoillosA performative language teaching approach in connection with emotion and identitySusana Martín Leralta,Margarita Planelles Almeida, María Eugenia Flores