New Challenges
in Language and Literature
Foreword: New Challenges, Daring Responses
Part I. New Challenges in Language
Ethnography and Complexity in SLA
Research
Adail
Sebastião Rodrigues-Júnior
Vera
Lúcia Menezes de Oliveira e Paiva
Students’ Experiences and Beliefs in the Language
Classroom:
Challenges and Opportunities for Reflective Learning
“Great Expectations”: Understanding Hope
Through Efl Teachers’
Narratives
Andréa
Machado de Almeida Mattos
A Reflection on the Challenges for Teaching
Genres in English Language Course Books:
The Identity of “World English”
Fractals and Fragmented Identities in Language
Acquisition
Some Crucial Elements of Learning Ecologies
Authorship in Materials Design for Language Teaching
The Challenge of Autonomization
Foreign Languages Teaching, Education and the
New Literacies Studies:
Expanding Views
Part II. New Challenges in Literature
Transnational Cinema: Representations of Latin
American
Geopolitical Struggles in Contemporary Anglo-American
Films
New Challenges from the Lost Unity: Shakespeare,
The Challenge of Critical Reflexivity Through
Postmodern Fiction Challenges: Reevaluating the
Vietnam War and the War on Terror
Postmodern Challenges in Alice Munro’s
Short Fiction:
Issues of Language and Representation
The Deconstruction of Cultural Icons in the Fiction
of
Sandra Cisneros and Helena María Viramontes
India’s “Truths”: Criticism Across Borders
Feminist Criticism and Knowledge:
(Literary) History and its Silences
In and Out the Global Village: Gender
Relations in a Cosmopolitan World
Hypertext, Information Overload, and the Death of
Literature
Oracle Night: A Bakhtinian Reading of
Paul Auster’s Metafictional Narrative
Diaspora and Modernity: The Postethnic
Ethos
in Denise Chong’s The Concubine’s Children