Framing Minds

Framing Minds: English Education and Affective Neurosciences aims to unveil and strengthen the link between affective neurosciences and English language education. It identifies and proposes novel, theory-based educational paradigms so as to facilitate second-language educators and learners’ endeavours. The volume presents innovative perspectives in educational neuroscience, applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, and language education. It reports the voices of researchers and practitioners who have experimented with the most recent trends in the above fields and share their creative insights, innovative approaches, action research and expertise.The volume addresses five thematic areas – “Neurosciences and Emotions,” “Neurosciences in Action,” “L2 Learning Processes,” “Insights into L2 Users,” as well as “Language and Cognition” – that cluster themes, research data, experiments, analyses, conclusions and reactions to a variety of innovative insights and approaches to L2 learning/teaching. Both a vibrant atmosphere and a creative attitude transpire from all the thematic areas of the volume. They will hopefully generate interest and attention in the readers who come across them.