IJES 2024, v. 24, n. 2
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- PublicationOpen AccessIf you weren’t my friend I wouldn’t know who I was : care virtues and the relational self in Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Carregal-Romero, JoséAbstract: Set in contemporary Ireland, Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You (2021) focuses on the relationship dynamics between characters who struggle with intimacy and human connection, against the backdrop of the individualist ethos and existential anxieties induced by current neoliberal systems. Drawing on care ethics, vulnerability and relationality theory, this analysis of Beautiful World underscores how Rooney constructs her characters’ psychological evolution through their progressive, albeit irregular, adoption of care virtues within relationships. The analysis shall apply Khader’s taxonomy of care virtues (2011), which include “loving attention” –a willingness to appreciate and accommodate the particular nature of the other–, “the transparent self” –an awareness of how our self-interests block our recognition of the other’s needs–, and “narrative understanding”, a desire to engage with the other’s personal history so as to make decisions that promote his/her well-being.
- PublicationOpen AccessRecrafting the model of the Portuguese nun in England : Aphra Behn and delarivier manley´s letter fictions.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Villegas-López, SoniaAbstract: The first English translation of Lettres portugaises was published in 1678 as Five Love-Letters from a Nun to a Cavalier. Capitalising on its literary success, the nun’s letters were extended and revised in two sequels. Their influence on women’s autochthonous fiction was strong in the years that followed. I will first focus on the history of the English reception of these French works to concentrate afterwards on two texts: Aphra Behn’s Love-Letters between a Nobleman and His Sister (1684-85) and Delarivier Manley’s Letters (1696). Whereas the former questions the veracity of the love letter by exploring the artificiality of love discourses and their dangerous effects on women’s lives, the latter recrafts the tradition of the female complaint by choosing a protagonist who voices her lament on the run. The reproducibility of the nun’s model makes us read Portuguese Letters not merely as the expression of unbidden emotion, but as a letter manual that could be revised and adapted.
- PublicationOpen AccessESP students processing multimodal websites through the eye-tracking technique.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Bort Mir, Lorena; Fortanet Gómez, InmaculadaAbstract: With the increasing importance of the Internet for teaching and learning, websites have become an interesting pedagogic resource as they entail interconnected modes of communication to convey meaning. When combined with multimodal website analysis, eye-tracking can provide valuable insights into how users engage with different modes of communication on a website. In this pilot experimental study, we analyze and compare how twenty-six Computer Science and Business and Law double degree students process two entrepreneurial websites to understand their meaning through eye-tracking (RealEyeTM online tool, https://www.realeye.io/). On the one hand, we analyze to what extent the eye-tracking technique contributes to the ESP students’ perception of the multimodality of websites. On the other hand, we tested the students’ reactions to using an activity with an eye-tracker in ESP courses, and we compared the results between two academic backgrounds. Our results show more fixations on titles and body text than photos or graphics, and the overall reading pattern entails fast scanning with no significant differences between the two groups. This research proves that eye-tracking can be a valuable tool for understanding how people process multimodal texts. It can be used to improve the effectiveness of such texts for communication and learning.
- PublicationOpen AccessA theoretical model of self-concept and self-esteem in the foreign language classroom.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Rubio-Alcalá, Fernando David; Cano-Jiménez, Pablo AntonioAbstract: This paper proposes a domain-specific theoretical model of self-concept and self-esteem in the foreign language classroom context. We studied different dimensions and factors, and Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) yielded a three-dimensional structured acceptable model fit with a reliability coefficient of ω= .92 (n=252), supporting the dimensions of language competence, task performance skills, and perceived social support. The specific factors within these dimensions and their interactions were analysed. Implications for research and pedagogy are also discussed.
- PublicationOpen AccessIncestuous relations in Bessie Head and Sindiwe Magona : the perversion of apartheid and the migrant labour system.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones., 2024) Gil-Naveira, IsabelAbstract: Apartheid and the migrant labour system affected the residential stability of black South African families in terms of wife-husband and father-child relations. The control exerted by apartheid laws made it impossible for generations of fathers for over one and a half centuries to raise their children (Wilson, 2006), affecting their personal and social behaviour. This article contends that in their use of literature as a political tool, writers Sindiwe Magona and Bessie Head offered a similar vision about the father-daughter relationship. Magona’s short story “It was Easter Sunday the day I went to Netreg” (1991) and Head’s short story “The Cardinals” (1995) portray a daughter and a father who do not know each other and who, years later and unknowingly, establish a sexual relation. This article will claim these incestuous relationships can be interpreted as the writers’ representation of the use and abuse the state exerted on its black citizens.
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