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The Critical Emotional Turn in Second Language Teacher Education

Tuesday 4th February 2025, 16:00 - 17:00 (GMT)

This event is hosted by the Language, Literacies and Education Network (LLEN)

Venue – Online.

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About the event

Following the growing interest in the sociopolitical dimensions of second language teacher emotions (e.g., De Costa et al. 2019; Gkonou & Miller, 2022) and teacher well being (e.g., Mercer, 2020, 2021), I examine developments in these adjacent areas of research.

Both lines of research consider the ecologies in which teachers are embedded. To illustrate the vibrant and burgeoning L2 teacher emotion research agenda, I draw on recent examples in the broader applied linguistics and second language teacher education (SLTE) research.

In particular, explore how the SLTE research landscape can be enriched by a systematic investigation of teacher emotion labor (Benesch, 2017) and feeling rules (Zembylas, 2007), with a view to advocate for language teaching professionals.

Peter I. De Costa is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Languages & Cultures and the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University, where he directs the Master’s in TESOL program in the College of Arts & Letters. He is also the English as a Second Language (ESL) graduate director in the College of Education. As a critical applied linguist, his research areas include emotions, identity, ideology and ethics in language learning, language teaching, and language policy. In addition, his ecologically- and social justice-oriented work looks at the intersection between second language acquisition (SLA), second language teacher education (SLTE), and language policy. He is the co-editor of TESOL Quarterly and the President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics.