Emotions and English Language Teaching

Name: Emotions and English Language Teaching
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers\u2019 affective lives, Sarah Benesch examines the relationship between English language teaching and emotions in postsecondary classrooms. The exploration takes into account implicit feeling rules that may drive institutional expectations of teacher performance and affect teachers\u2019 responses to and decisions about pedagogical matters. Based on interviews with postsecondary English language teachers, the book analyzes ways in which they negotiate tension\u2014theorized as emotion labor\u2014between feeling rules and teachers\u2019 professional training and/or experience, in particularly challenging areas of teaching: high-stakes literacy testing; responding to student writing; plagiarism; and attendance. Discussion of this rich interview data offers an expanded and nuanced understanding of English language teaching, one positing teachers\u2019 emotion labor as a framework for theoriz.