https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9830 2026-04-27T16:55:10Z 2026-04-27T16:55:10Z Nido, Almudena Díez Cobo, Rosa María https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9960 2025-01-18T01:05:29Z 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Use of Gothic Fiction as a Second Language Teaching-Learning Motivational Input for Adolescents Nido, Almudena; Díez Cobo, Rosa María It is indisputable that success in the acquisition of a second language is closely dovetailed with motivation. A direct rapport between motivation and language achievement can be traced, whereby the higher the motivation, the smoother the advances towards an effective acquisition of the target language. This process has been thoroughly explored of late in the field of Second Language Learning (SLL). Experts have rightly pinpointed that motivation dynamics greatly differ when we attend to groups of learners that tend to have a meagre and oscillating engagement with the subject matter, as it is mostly the case with adolescents. Thus, what would be at stake in this paper is the discussion of how to pair teenagers’ preferences with pertinent teaching-learning tools in the EFL (English as a Foreign Language) context. Given that the greatest challenge is to engage students’ attention and to present contents and topics that are relevant to them, it is our contention that specific literary resources as those within the Gothic narrative genre can facilitate motivation in learner-centred experience in adolescence since they resonate with key anxieties of this period. We thus side with the growing current in SLL that, over the decades, has promoted literature and extensive reading as valuable contributions to language acquisition. Our specific proposal is to incorporate the reading of Gothic fiction into the EFL secondary curriculum as a motivational spur. If teachers introduce narratives in English that have particularly appealing subject matters for our students, the teaching-learning strategies would be greatly improved.

2023-01-01T00:00:00Z Díez Cobo, Rosa María https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9892 2025-01-14T01:05:29Z 2022-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hogares monstruosos: de la casa encantada a la ‘casa consciente’ en la narrativa en español Díez Cobo, Rosa María Este trabajo plantea la casa encantada como monstruo inserto dentro del elenco de seres del panteón terrorífico tradicional. Para ello, se establecerá una clasificación de hogares embrujados de acuerdo a sus características más sobresalientes. Partiendo de este análisis, de espectro comparativo dada la naturaleza del tópico, se abordará una modalidad particularmente monstruosa de casa insólita, la que denominaremos como ‘consciente’, aquella que posee cognición. Con el alcance crítico que esto comporta, esta tipología nos adentrará, entre otras, en dos representativas novelas en español, Las madres negras (2018), de Patricia Esteban Erlés y Casa en venta (2020), de Mercedes Abad.

2022-12-01T00:00:00Z Díez Cobo, Rosa María https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9880 2025-01-14T01:05:30Z 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z

Arquitecturas del hogar invertido: reescribiendo la casa encantada Díez Cobo, Rosa María La casa encantada es un tópico del terror muy popular que parece indisolublemente relacionado con la tradición gótica anglosajona. Sin embargo, aun considerando la abundante y exitosa recreación de este tipo de espacio siniestro en los productos culturales en lengua inglesa, tampoco en nuestras literaturas en español resulta un tema ajeno. Es más, en las últimas décadas, de mano de un nutrido grupo de escritoras, está experimentando un auge narrativo que, hasta el momento, no ha atraído demasiado interés por parte de la crítica. Precisamente, en este artículo se busca analizar el fenómeno considerando sus características generales como «arquitectura del hogar invertido», y ahondando en su manifestación literaria a través del estudio de tres relatos representativos: «Una noche de invierno es una casa» (2006), de Cecilia Eudave,«Habitante» (2008), de Patricia Esteban Erlés, y «La casa de Adela» (2016). de Mariana Enríquez.; The haunted house is a very popular topic in the horror genre that seems inextricably related to the Anglo-Saxon Gothic tradition. However, taking into account the abundant and successful recreations of this type of uncanny space in English cultural products, it is not an unfamiliar subject in our literatures in Spanish either. Indeed, in the last decades, thanks to a considerable group of women writers, it is experiencing a narrative peak that, so far, has not attracted much critical attention. This article aims to analyse precisely this phenomenon considering its general features as an «inverted home architecture», and exploring in depth its literary manifestation through the examination of three representative short stories: «Una noche de invierno es una casa» (2006) by Cecilia Eudave,«Habitante» (2008) by Patricia Esteban Erlés, «La casa de Adela» (2016) by Mariana Enríquez.

2020-03-01T00:00:00Z Díez Cobo, Rosa María https://hdl.handle.net/10259/9879 2025-01-14T01:05:24Z 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z

Puertas afuera, puertas adentro: la (trans)domesticidad como dialéctica social en «La señorita Julia» de Amparo Dávila y «The Babadook» de Jennifer Kent Díez Cobo, Rosa María El espacio doméstico ha sido un locus arquetípico de la literatura fantástica. Dentro de las posibilidades críticas que ha encarnado, una de las más reconocidas es la representación de las limitaciones sociales que han aquejado a la figura femenina. Sin embargo, el papel un tanto desgastado de este marco diegético ha contribuido a la diversificación de sus repre-sentaciones y a la amplificación de sus vertientes semióticas. Una de dichas vertientes incide en la necesidad de no limitar la concepción de la casa encantada a una mera interioridad, a un espacio clausurado, ajeno al exterior. En esta dirección, este trabajo se propone explorar la dialéctica doméstico-social que se establece entre el afuera y el adentro en el cuento «La señorita Julia» (1959), de la mexicana Amparo Dávila, y la película The Babadook (2014), de la australiana Jennifer Kent.; Domestic space has been an archetypal locus for fantastic literature. Among its critical potentials, a central one has been the representation of the social limitations afflicting women. However, the somewhat worn-out role of this diegetic framework has contributed to the diversification of its representations and the amplification of its semiotic aspects. One of these aspects implicates the need not to limit the conception of the haunted house to a mere interiority, to a closed space, alien to the exterior. In this direction, this work intends to explore the domestic-social dialectic that is established between the outside and the inside in the story «La señorita Julia» (1959), by the Mexican Amparo Dávila, and the film The Babadook (2014), by the Australian Jennifer Kent.

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