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.

Liliana Landolfi (Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics, Los Angeles, CA) is a Professor of English Language and Translation Studies at the University of Naples “L’Orientale”. Her research interests focus on English phenomena and on the impact of awareness, empowerment, emotions and other psychological factors on favouring/inhibiting the second-language acquisition process. She has recently published: PÆCE. An Italian-English Corpus Based on EFL Students (2012), Behind and Beyond the EFL PÆCE Corpus (2012), Rewind. Visualisation in English Language Learning (2017) and Dalla Terra al Cielo (2017). She has also edited Crossroads: Languages in (E)motion (2014), Living Roots-Living Routes (2015), Transnational subjects. Linguistic Encounters (2017), and E-Factor: English, Education, Empowerment & Emotivation (2017).