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This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience are shaped and function. The book covers a range of emotion-related topics on both positive and negative emotions, including emotional labour, burnout, emotion regulation, resilience, emotional intelligence and wellbeing.
About the author
Dr. Christina Gkonou is Associate Professor of TESOL and MA TESOL Programme Leader in the Department of Language and Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK. She is also Deputy Director of Education in the same Department. She convenes postgraduate modules on teacher education and development, and on psychological aspects surrounding the foreign language learning and teaching experience. She is the co-editor of New Directions in Language Learning Psychology, New Insights into Language Anxiety: Theory, Research and Educational Implications, Language Teaching: An emotional rollercoaster, and co-author of MYE: Managing Your Emotions Questionnaire.
Jean-Marc Dewaele is Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism, Birkbeck, University of London¸ UK. He has been working in the field for close to 30 years and has published extensively on multilingualism and emotion. He is General Editor of Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
Jim King is based at the University of Leicester where he directs the institution’s campus-based postgraduate courses in applied linguistics and teaching English as a second language. His books include the monograph Silence in the Second Language Classroom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and the edited volumes The Dynamic Interplay between Context and the Language Learner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching (with Christina Gkonou and Jean-Marc Dewaele, Multilingual Matters, 2020) and East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education (with Seiko Harumi, Multilingual Matters, 2020).
Summary
This book focuses on the emotional complexity of language teaching and how the diverse emotions that teachers experience are shaped and function. The book covers a range of emotion-related topics on both positive and negative emotions, including emotional labour, burnout, emotion regulation, resilience, emotional intelligence and wellbeing.
