Emotions and English Language Teaching Benesch Sarah
Emotions and English Language Teaching Benesch Sarah Taking a critical approach that considers the role of power, and resistance to power, in teachers' affective lives, Sarah Benesch examines the…
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Emotions and English Language Teaching Benesch Sarah
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. 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. 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.
Discussion of this rich interview data offers an expanded and nuanced