Language Teachers’ Health: Emotions and Wellbeing in the COVID-19 Pandemic
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2022
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This chapter documents language teachers’ emotions and wellbeing from the emergency online transition
in Spring 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic to the end of Spring 2021. It also looks at how language
teachers within the United States perceive the future of teaching languages. 175 educators responded
to an anonymous online survey composed of various types of items such as multiple-choice, binary
format, selection of multiple answers, and open-ended. Cronbach’s alpha was .717 for 114 items and
sub items. Descriptive statistics and repeated measures t-tests were computed to investigate teaching
strategies and psychological consequences during the Covid-19 pandemic. The goals of this chapter
are twofold: (1) to identify emotions and wellbeing issues that may be affecting language faculties and
their success at their United States institutions and (2) to offer general recommendations to high-level
administrators that draw upon language teachers’ perceptions and factors that hinder L2 development
in language programs.
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