IJES 2021, v. 21, n. 2
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- PublicationOpen AccessReseña: Francisco Fernández, José (Ed.). (2018). The Plays of Margaret Drabble. A Critical Edition. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press. Pages: 176. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3605-2.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Monrós-Gaspar, Laura
- PublicationOpen AccessMyth, form and intertextuality in Edwin Muir.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Insausti, GabrielEdwin Muir has often embarrassed critics as a rara avis. He was overlooked by anthologists before 1950 and, although subsequent anthologies never failed to include him, he was still hard to place for many readers. Labelled as a “traditionalist” or a “craftsman”, his later work proves however that Muir was much more. Understanding his use of myth, form and intertextuality enables us to rethink the significance of his work in the twentieth-century context.
- PublicationOpen AccessRefugee policies and narratives in the globalised era: the case of Australia.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Herrero, DoloresOne of the effects of globalisation has been population mobility as a result of famine, climate warming and war conflicts, among other things. This flow of refugees, however, is often seen as a menace to the rule of law and human rights concomitant with the Western lifestyle. Refugees are no longer regarded as human beings and victims, but rather as danger, even as potential terrorists, which has led many governments, including the Australian, to detain them indefinitely in detention centres where they are confined in inhuman conditions. The main aim of this paper will be to describe Australian immigration policies and how contemporary Australian narratives on and by refugees are reflecting this situation, mainly by analysing a selection of texts from three recently published collections, namely, A Country Too Far (2013), They Cannot Take the Sky (2017) and Seabirds Crying in the Harbour Dark (2017), and Behrouz Boochani’s No Friend but the Mountains (2018).
- PublicationOpen AccessAre EFL writers motivated or demotivated by model texts and task repetition? Evidence from young collaborative writers.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Lázaro-Ibarrola, Amparo; Villarreal, IzaskunStudies on multi-stage writing tasks with adults and children have shown that model texts and task repetition aid language acquisition, especially when learners work in collaboration. However, these studies have not included measures of task motivation, which is vital in young learners (YLs) and could help develop a more comprehensive understanding of task effectiveness. The present study analyses task motivation in 24 EFL YLs writing in pairs during three sessions divided into a model group (MG) and a task repetition group (TRG). Results show that students’ task motivation is high in general but declines in the MG while it is maintained in the TRG. As for the motives, working together is the main reason students give to justify their positive scores. These results complete previous knowledge about models and TR, reinforce the value of collaborative writing and encourage the inclusion of motivation measures in task-based research.
- PublicationOpen AccessAoristic drift and narrative perfect in early modern English: a functional approach.(Universidad de Murcia, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2021) Bondar, VladimirIn the current study, data from A Corpus of English Dialogues (1560-1760) are used to consider contexts with the have-perfect and temporal adverbs of the definite past time such as yesterday, last night, ago. Data analysis is conducted within the framework of a usage-based approach, which gives evidence to the hypothesis that in Early Modern English the have-perfect in spoken register was gradually developing perfective semantics and that it followed the stages of generalization of meaning depending on the degree of event remoteness. Investigation of the instances where the have-perfect is used in narrative passages shows that the have-perfect in such contexts does not lose its pragmatic component of current relevance but is employed to highlight a crucial event out of a chain of past events. The paper proposes the hypothesis that the main mechanism preventing the have-perfect from further aoristicization is the operation of syntactic analogy within the syntactic paradigm of the present perfect, which had already fully developed by the time of Early Modern English.