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 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

"The narratives of both Benesch and participants in her study provide nuanced depictions of conflicts between institutional policies, teachers' professional training, and their personal feelings, and how teachers negotiate these in practice. [...] This book will benefit pre-service and novice teachers, high>lighting the emotional challenges they will face, and providing them with other teachers' solutions, therefore better preparing them for the profession."

-Hanxi Li , School of Foreign Languages, Northeast Normal University