ABSTRACT
Research tells us English language teachers’ well-being directly affects their effectiveness, teaching practices, classroom atmosphere, teacher-student relationships, and students’ well-being and performance, to name a few. In the same way that teacher preparation and knowledge affect teachers’ performance, so does teacher well-being. With the purpose of situating teacher well-being in English language teaching (ELT), we provide in this chapter a brief overview of existing published works highlighting the effects of well-being on teachers’ personal and professional lives. Specifically, we first introduce the topic of well-being and teacher well-being in ELT. Then, we divide the chapter into three main sections, each addressing a salient topic found in the currently available literature about language teacher well-being—namely, (1) emotions in ELT, (2) work-life balance in ELT, and (3) services and supports in ELT. In each of these sections, we introduce the topic with a vignette, followed by a brief overview of the literature.
