Behind and Beyond the EFL P.Æ.C.E. Corpus (B&B) complements the volume P.Æ.C.E. An Italian-English Corpus Based on EFL Students (P.Æ.C.E.). P.Æ.C.E. gathers the corpus raw data while B&B goes beyond presenting corpus backgrounds and data-derived projections. Qualitative and quantitative analyses unveil unexpected scenarios linked to freshmen’s emotional micro-worlds and self-made belief systems before and after a guided visualization. Myriad extracts show that visualizations awaken learners’ inner spheres and generate drastic changes in personal views about SLA. They disclose the presence of a deep and unifying motivational force, called Emotivation by the author. Emotivation subtends acquisition, is self-generated, self-governed, and stands, in NLP terms, as a feasible candidate for ‘the difference that makes the difference’ in SLA.

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).