Language Teacher Emotion Regulation

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In this captivating book, Morris explores teacher emotional struggles, revealing the motives, decisions, and outcomes of emotion regulation. Through an insider's lens, he examines internal, cultural, and contextual influences on these behaviors. Rooted in a specific context, this study offers transformative insights for teachers, trainers, researchers, and institutions into the critical skill of emotion regulation. * Anna Mystkowska-Wiertelak, University of Wroclaw, Poland * Morris's book provides the most comprehensive theoretical and empirical treatment of language teacher emotion regulation currently available. Based on a careful qualitative study with tertiary English teachers in Japan, it amply corroborates his claim that emotion regulation is at the heart of nearly every decision that teachers make. Anyone with a stake in language teacher emotions needs to read this book. * Elizabeth R. Miller, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA * This book provides a deeply nuanced understanding of the complexities and choices involved in presenting an emotional public teaching-persona. Morris provides the Language Teacher Emotion Regulation Model (LTERM), with research and conceptual arguments expressed in an engaging, thought provoking and immensely readable way that I found both informative and compelling. * Richard S. Pinner, Sophia University, Japan *