This paper provides an account of the progress of SciencePro, an innovative, interdisciplinary and interinstitutional education project, whose ultimate aim is to improve student teachers' knowledge, abilities and attitudes for teaching Natural Sciences in a foreign language. The team is working on the development of good practices at university level: enhancing profi ciency of cross-curricular competences, including scientifi c contents, knowledge and foreign language skills oriented to scientifi c discourse, with a view to developing a more appropriate teaching approach. The Practicum period is needed in order to test out the improvement of these specifi c professional competences, which should be more suitable to modern bilingual school contexts.Keywords: innovation project; CLIL; Natural Science teaching; foreign language teaching; Practicum.Resumen: El contenido de este artículo da cuenta de los avances de SciencePro, un proyecto de innovación educativa, de carácter interdisciplinar e interinstitucional, cuyo fi n último se dirige a la mejora del conocimiento, aptitudes y actitudes de los futuros maestros para la enseñanza de la asignatura de Ciencias Naturales en una lengua extranjera. El equipo trabaja en el desarrollo de buenas prácticas -en el nivel universitario-que den lugar al dominio de competencias transversales -incluyendo contenidos científi cos, conocimiento y destrezas en lengua extranjera orientadas hacia el discurso científi co y un enfoque metodológico adecuado. El periodo de Prácticum nos sirve para comprobar la mejora de aquellas competencias profesionales específi cas que más se adecúan a los contextos escolares bilingües.Palabras clave: proyecto de innovación; AICLE; enseñanza de Ciencias Naturales; enseñanza de lengua extranjera; Prácticum.

Succumbing to the moon's enchantment seems nothing out of the ordinary, however much the post-modern human mind wants to deny the fact. The present article shows the way art -particularly post-modern poetry-makes use of this ordinary romantic imaginative attraction in order to convey everlasting human stances towards real life. As an example we shall consider the moon from two different perspectives: Philip Larkin's "Sad Steps" helps the reader view it from a quasi-philosophical position, whereas Sylvia Plath's "Edge" uses it as an objective correlative for a woman's complexity. For the analysis of the poems we have adopted a cognitive poetic approach, based on the cognitive linguistic theories on mental spaces, cognitive-conceptual metaphor and sensing-conceptualising connection among others. Keywords: Post-modern poetry, cognitive poetics, Philip Larkin, Sylvia Plath, moon.Resumen: Por mucho que las mentes de hombres y mujeres de la era post-moderna quieran negarlo, sucumbir al encanto de la luna forma parte de nuestra vida cotidiana. En este artículo queremos mostrar el modo en que el arte, y en particular la poesía postmoderna, emplea esta atracción de cariz romántico imaginativo para transmitir posturas siempre presentes ante la realidad vital del ser humano. De la mano de Philip Larkin y Sylvia Plath exploramos distintos modos de percibir la entidad lunar: con "Sad Steps" Larkin nos ayuda a observarla desde una perspectiva casi filosófica, y el poema "Edge" de Plath nos lleva a reconocerla como correlato objetivo de la complejidad femenina. Para el análisis de los poemas hemos adoptado un enfoque poético-cognitivo, basado en las teorías lingüístico-cognitivas sobre espacios mentales, sobre metáfora conceptual-cognitiva, y sobre las conexiones existentes entre experiencia sensorial y conceptualización, entre otras.

The relation between Linguistics and Poetics has often been a controversial issue in Poetic Studies. With the advent of Cognitive Linguistics and its open disposition to consider any kind of discourse as interesting enough samples of human thought -and human thought being discovered to be of a figurative nature -doors have been widely opened to poetry. Despite the firm reluctance of some Literary sectors to move beyond traditional Poetics, the works by E. Semino, P. Stockwell, Gavins & Steen and M. Freeman are clear confirmation of the modern tendency to incorporate CL findings into poetic analysis. The present paper explores this relation once again. Based on the "unity-in-variety" aesthetic principle, it analyses the way Blending Theory provides the necessary resources to consider any single piece of the poem in the integration network. The paper also offers a systematic methodology -illustrated with a brief analysis of Seamus Heaney's "Oracle" -which intends to make a contribution to the discipline of Poetics mainly in the educational field.

Little attention has been paid to some aspects of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s intellectual activity compared with others. His affairs as a diplomat, his contribution to music, and his affection for botany are only three of them. This article shows their connections with forms of expression in which words are replaced by other kinds of graphic representation, such as ideographic signs for their evocation and numbers for their efficiency and simplicity. These contributions were collected in his first and last intellectual projects: Project for Musical Notation (1742), a young man’s idealistic challenge presented before Paris Académie des Sciences–and rejected by them; and Characters of Botany (1776-1778), a private senescence enterprise.