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7 - Burnout and Good Language Teachers

from Part I - Macro Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2020

By
Carol Griffiths  and
Görsev Sönmez
Edited by
Carol Griffiths  and
Zia Tajeddin
Carol Griffiths
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Zia Tajeddin
Affiliation:
Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
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Summary

Chapter 7 looks at teacher burnout. The authors first describe cases of teachers who experienced burnout before presenting findings from cases of teachers who survived burnout. They extract implications from these cases for language teachers.

Keywords

burnoutstressrelaxationsocialization
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Lessons from Good Language Teachers , pp. 80 - 89
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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