The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching

Edited by Christina Gkonou, Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele, Jim King

Publication date:

19 May 2020

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788928335

This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience while teaching are shaped and function. The book is based on the premise that teaching is not just about the transmission of academic knowledge but also about inspiring students, building rapport with them, creating relationships based on empathy and trust, being patient and most importantly controlling one’s own emotions and being able to influence students’ emotions in a positive way. The book covers a range of emotion-related topics on both positive and negative emotions which are relevant to language teaching including emotional labour, burnout, emotion regulation, resilience, emotional intelligence and wellbeing among others. These topics are studied within a wide range of contexts such as teacher education programmes, tertiary education, CLIL and action research settings, and primary and secondary schools across different countries. The book will appeal to any student, researcher, teacher or policymaker who is interested in research on the psychological aspects of foreign language teaching.

Tables, Figures and Images

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Jane Arnold: Foreword

Chapter 1. Christina Gkonou, Jean-Marc Dewaele and Jim King: Introduction to the Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching

Chapter 2. Nicole Hofstadler, Kyle Talbot, Sarah Mercer and Anita Lämmerer: The Thrills and Ills of CLIL

Chapter 3. Kris Acheson and Robert Bruce Nelson: Utilising the Emotional Labour Scale to Analyse the Form and Extent of Emotional Labour among Foreign Language Teachers in the US Public School System

Chapter 4. Sarah Benesch: Theorising Emotions from a Critical Perspective: English Language Teachers’ Emotion Labour When Responding to Student Writing

Chapter 5. Emily Edwards and Anne Burns: ‘Opening Pandora’s Box’: Language Teachers’ Dynamic Emotional Experiences of Conducting Action Research

Chapter 6. Achilleas Kostoulas and Anita Lämmerer: Resilience in Language Teaching: Adaptive and Maladaptive Outcomes in Pre-service Teachers

Chapter 7. Joseph Falout: Past L2 Selves, Emotions and Classroom Group Dynamics: The Don’t Ask, Can’t Tell Policy

Chapter 8. Christina Gkonou and Elizabeth R. Miller: ‘Critical Incidents’ in Language Teachers’ Narratives of Emotional Experience

Chapter 9. Simon Humphries: “Please Teach Me How to Teach”: The Emotional Impact of Educational Change

Chapter 10. Maiko Ikeda, Osamu Takeuchi and Hiroyuki Imai: Investigating Dynamic Changes in Elementary School Teachers’ Anxiety when Teaching English

Chapter 11. Sam Morris and Jim King: Emotion Regulation among University EFL Teachers in Japan: The Dynamic Interplay between Context and Emotional Behaviour

Chapter 12. Peter I. de Costa, Wendy Li and Hima Rawal: Should I Stay or Leave? Exploring L2 Teachers’ Profession from an Emotionally-inflected Framework

Chapter 13. Tammy Gregersen, Peter D. MacIntyre, & Nicole Macmillan: Dealing with the Emotions of Teaching Abroad: Searching for Silver Linings in a Difficult Context

Chapter 14. Rebecca Oxford: The Well of Language Teachers’ Emotional Well-Being

Chapter 15. Jean-Marc Dewaele: What Psychological, Linguistic and Sociobiographical Variables Power EFL/ESL Teachers’ Motivation?

Chapter 16. Jim King, Christina Gkonou and Jean-Marc Dewaele: Concluding Thoughts on the Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching

Index

This volume provides fascinating insights into the complexity of emotions shaping language teachers’ classroom practice, experiences and working lives. The editors have brought together a rich range of theoretical and empirical perspectives spanning a diversity of professional contexts. The book will be of value to all those concerned with understanding or researching the emotional dimension of language teaching.