Emotions and English Language Teaching: Exploring Teachers’ Emotion Labor

Author:   Sarah Benesch
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138832138


Pages:   206
Publication Date:   22 February 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Emotions and English Language Teaching: Exploring Teachers’ Emotion Labor


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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.

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Author:   Sarah Benesch
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.430kg
ISBN:  

9781138832138


ISBN 10:   1138832138
Pages:   206
Publication Date:   22 February 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Theorizing Emotions 3 Theorizing Emotion Labor 4 High-Stakes Literacy Testing and Emotion Labor 5 Responding to Student Writing and Emotion Labor 6 Plagiarism and Emotion Labor 7 Attendance and Emotion Labor 8 Conclusion and Pedagogical Implications Index

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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 privately or bracketed when it comes to their professional lives and honors the full work that we do. --Jennifer Mott-Smith, Applied Linguistics


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 privately or bracketed when it comes to their professional lives and honors the full work that we do. --Jennifer Mott-Smith, Applied Linguistics This book will benefit pre-service and novice teachers, highlighting the emotional challenges they will face, and providing them with other teachers' solutions, therefore better preparing them for the profession. - Hanxi Li, Educational Review


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Sarah Benesch is Professor Emerita of English, College of Staten Island, The City University of New York, USA.

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