Teacher Emotions as Personal and Professional Development in Applied Linguistics

Previously, most studies in this area have focused on the reciprocal effects of language teachers’ emotions, identity, well-being and agency, with emotions often being portrayed as consequential entities. However, this book advances the field by exploring specifically how language teacher emotions can be used as tools for personal and professional development. The authors provide empirical, theoretical, conceptual and practical contributions which demonstrate how emotional responses provide data that can be analyzed and reflected upon and how emotions can be seen not as occurrences that are suffered, but as actions, judgments, choices, responsibilities and data that can be used to improve personal growth and professional lives. The chapters shed light on the potential of emotions as tools for teachers’ personal and professional development, such as, but not limited to, emotional literacy, emotional intelligence, emotional agility and regulation, emotional memory and self-exploratory and self-reflective inquiries.

Mohammad N. Karimi is Professor of Applied Linguistics at Kharazmi University, Iran. His research interests include cognitive aspects of language learning and teaching, second language teacher education and development, teacher cognition, learner beliefs and psychology of language learning and teaching.

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera is Professor at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw, Poland and the 2024 TESOL Teacher of the Year, awarded by the TESOL International Association and National Geographic Learning. His research interests are situated at the intersection of identity, emotions and well-being in language and literacy education, social-emotional learning, autoethnography and storytelling, refugee education and language weaponization.

Behzad Mansouri holds a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA and is currently a Program Evaluator and Research Specialist at Lakeshore Foundation, an internationally recognized non-profit organization with the mission of promoting advocacy and inclusion for individuals with disabilities.