Description
| Product ID: | 9781138832145 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Emotions and English Language Teaching |
| Subtitle: | Exploring Teachers’ Emotion Labor |
| Authors: | Author: Sarah Benesch |
| Page Count: | 196 |
| Subjects: | Bilingualism and multilingualism, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching theory and methods, Teaching of a specific subject, Literature: history & criticism, Applied linguistics for ELT, Teaching of a specific subject |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Taking a critical approach, one that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers' affective lives, this volume, with its focus on "emotion labor," examines the relationship between English language teaching and emotions in postsecondary classrooms. Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers’ 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’ responses to and decisions about pedagogical matters. Based on interviews with postsecondary English language teachers, the book analyzes ways in which they negotiate tension—theorized as emotion labor—between feeling rules and teachers’ 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’ emotion labor as a framework for theorizing emotions critically and as a tool of teacher agency and resistance. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-02-22 |
