Language Teacher Emotion, Identity Learning and Curriculum Reform

This qualitative study, utilizing a longitudinal case study design, sets out to trace how four college English teachers at the case study university in East China respond emotionally towards the curriculum reform, how teacher identity learning takes place, and how emotions interact with the identity learning processes.

Dr. Shanshan Yang is a lecturer in the College of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Fudan University, China. Her recent research interests include researcher-practitioner collaboration, language teacher emotions, curriculum reform, and individual differences. Dr. Yang has published in journals such as Teaching and Teacher Education, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Higher Education.