Making sense of emotion and identity construction through metaphors: a prompt-based study in an English as a Foreign Language context

A Derakhshan, S Karimpour… - Journal of Multilingual and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The study of teachers' cognitive processes has received considerable attention in the past
decades. However, the scope of research on the way teachers cognitively represent and …

The language and non-language benefits of literature in foreign language education: An exploratory study of learners' views

A Tsang, A Paran, WWF Lau - Language Teaching …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Set against the backcloth of increasing recognition and attention to literature in foreign
language education (FLE) globally, this article reports part of a large-scale study of 1,190 …

“Predators of Emotions”: The Role of School Assessment Policies in English Language Teachers' Emotion Labor

M Nazari, K Molana - Tesol Quarterly, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Emotion labor is expecting individuals to display institutionally‐accepted emotional
behaviors. This study examined the role of school assessment policies in 13 Iranian English …

Pre-service teachers learning to teach English as a foreign language to preschool learners in Macau: A longitudinal study

BL Reynolds, S Liu, XV Ha, X Zhang… - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Language teacher beliefs have received increasing research attention for the past few
decades. However, little is known about the beliefs of pre-service teachers in the pre-primary …

Emotions, perspectives, and English language teacher identity construction: A phenomenographic‐narrative study

M Nazari, S Karimpour - International Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the recent surge of interest in language teacher emotions, little research has
examined the role of cognitive and social dimensions of teachers' emotions in their identity …

Literature in language education: Exploring teachers' beliefs, practices, creativity, and literary competence

R Calafato - Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Given the growing movement in support of blurring the divisions between language and
literature teaching, it has become increasingly vital to understand what language teachers …

Pre-service teachers learning to teach English to very young learners in Macau: do beliefs trump practice?

BL Reynolds, XV Ha, C Ding, X Zhang, S Liu, X Ma - Behavioral Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The global importance of English and therefore the teaching of the English language has
made the English language curriculum an integral part of all levels of teacher education …

Exploring pre-service pre-primary EFL teacher beliefs about teaching English to very young learners: A Macau case study

BL Reynolds, S Liu, M Milosavljevic, C Ding… - Sage …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Research on the beliefs of pre-service and in-service English teachers at the primary,
secondary, and tertiary levels has provided useful knowledge to teacher education …

Analysis of potential factors influencing China's regional sustainable economic growth

M Li, H Sun, FO Agyeman, M Heydari, A Jameel… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this article is to screen out the most important factors affecting China's
economic growth. Based on a literature review and relevant financial theoretical knowledge …

Literature in secondary EFL class: case studies of four experienced teachers' reading programmes in China

X Sun - The Language Learning Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The benefits of using literature in second or foreign language teaching have been re-gaining
attention and recognition in recent years. With the aim of exploring possible pedagogical …