This monography is devoted to a major concern of pedagogy: teacher and learner autonomy. RCEI’s volume 38 was a first attempt to deal with this subject which in the current volume focuses on the development of a learner-centered type of education. Articles concentrate mainly in the methods used by teachers to implement this in their classrooms with special interest in language learning.

(Re)definiendo la poesía británica contemporánea

This issue brings together a collection of papers by major researchers from various international institutions, who were invited to contribute papers on the latest ESP trends, particularly research into writing in academic settings. Most of the authors in this volume argue that there is a general lack of specific guidance to writers as to how to tackle the rhetorical conventions which allow them to meet the expectations of the members of the international scientific community; and all the authors without exception have in common as their prime concern offering assistance to novice writers, and especially non-native speakers of English, with the acquisition of the necessary rhetorical skills to produce successful academic writing in English.

Escritura biográfica y género: prácticas y teorías

Different linguistic approaches are present in this monographic issue that interrelates semantics and syntax. Theories like Systemic Functional Grammar, Frame Semantics or the Lexical-Constructional Model enable researchers to analyze the mechanisms that may explain the ‘transition’ from lexical semantics to grammatical structures within the framework of a functionally and/or cognitively-based conception.

Eva Darias Beautell is the guest-editor of the monography where six more  authors elaborate on Canadian literature of the end of 20th and beginning of the 21st century from different perspectives: multiculturalism, new historicism, diaspora studies, environmentalism and gender studies.

Número dedicado al estudio de la literatura, lengua y filología en Inglés Antiguo desde perspectivas metodológicas innovadoras. Los datos más recientes que han arrojado  disciplinas como la historia, la arqueología u otras disciplinas lingüísticas en sus facetas cognitiva, funcional, así como estudios filológicos metateoréticos, entre otros, se han traducido en resultados convincentes y nuevos prismas en la percepción del mundo medieval y Anglosajón.