The Emotional Rollercoaster of Language Teaching

Christina Gkonou is Senior Lecturer in TESOL, University of Essex, UK. Her research interests include psychology for language learning and teaching, teacher professional identities, language anxiety and teacher education. She is co-editor (with Mark Daubney and Jean-Marc Dewaele) of New Insights into Language Anxiety (Multilingual Matters, 2017).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 the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.Jim King is based at the University of Leicester, UK where he directs postgraduate courses in Applied Linguistics and TESOL. His research interests centre around psychological aspects of foreign language education, with a particular focus on learner silence. He is co-editor (with Seiko Harumi) of East Asian Perspectives on Silence in English Language Education (Multilingual Matters, 2020).

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.

• Tables, Figures and Images AcknowledgementsContributorsJane Arnold: ForewordChapter 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 ContextChapter 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