Ana Jackelin Aguirre Hernández

Pre-service teachers’ emotions, experienced during teaching in the pedagogical practicum: an illustration about the construction of their language teacher identities

After being part of a language teaching program and as a mentor of pre-service teachers for many years, I have always been interested in the way emotions configure the way we behave and who we are as teachers. After doing an exploration on resent research in Colombia on the area of emotions, I could realize there are some, which are mainly concentrated on the way emotions affect the teachers’ agency and performance in the classroom. However, studies regarding the way the emotions construct the Pre-service teachers’ identity bearing in mind their process of becoming English language teachers is not yet well discussed. Based on the previous information, I want to answer the next question: How do pre-service teachers’ emotions, experienced during teaching in the pedagogical practicum,...