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Emotions and English Language Teaching: Exploring Teachers´ Emotion Labor
Sarah Benesch
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Paperback. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; CFDM; EBAL; JNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 294.
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; ... Read more
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; ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
293g
Number of Pages
196
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138832145
SKU
V9781138832145
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About Sarah Benesch
Sarah Benesch is Professor Emerita of English, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA.
Reviews for Emotions and English Language Teaching: Exploring Teachers´ Emotion Labor
Providing an empirically based theoretical framework for understanding teachers' emotions, Benesch makes a major contribution to the growing literature on emotions in the field of applied linguistics. Benesch elaborates the notion of emotion labor and argues that such labor is central to our work as teachers. In making this move, she rejects the notion that teachers' emotions should be experienced ... Read more