Call for Submissions
Topic: Language Teacher Wellbeing: Who Cares, Who Cares?
Deadline for Submissions: 30 April 2025
We are excited to invite submissions for the upcoming issue of the Teacher Educator Interest Section Newsletter, titled "Language Teacher Wellbeing: Who Cares, Who Cares?" This issue aims to delve into the critical yet often overlooked topic of language teacher wellbeing. It seeks to explore who is responsible for supporting teacher wellbeing, why it matters, and how it impacts both educators and learners.
Language teachers often work under immense pressure, balancing high expectations, diverse learner needs, and professional demands. However, conversations about teacher care, self-care, and institutional support remain limited. This issue seeks to ignite these conversations and provide practical, research-based, and reflective insights into promoting teacher wellbeing in language education.
If you are a language teacher, teacher educator, researcher, or administrator, we invite you to share your experiences, research findings, and strategies for fostering language teacher wellbeing.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Institutional and policy-level support for language teacher wellbeing
- Self-care strategies for language educators
- The impact of teacher wellbeing on student outcomes
- Burnout prevention and recovery in language teaching
- Stories of resilience and wellbeing practices in challenging contexts
- Building a culture of care among language teachers and administrators
- Research into the role of emotional and social wellbeing in language teaching
We welcome submissions that address these topics through research articles, practitioner reflections, case studies, or practical strategies for improving teacher wellbeing.
Submission Types
Articles
Articles should be between 800 and 1,000 words and should address the questions and themes outlined above.
Book Reviews
Book reviews of between 300 and 500 words should analyze books relevant to language teacher wellbeing, self-care, or emotional resilience, offering insights into their contributions to the field.
TEIS Voices
TEIS voices are short paragraphs of approximately 100 words, spotlighting a teacher, program, or initiative that promotes teacher wellbeing. These pieces serve as a networking tool and an opportunity to highlight innovative practices and ideas.
Submission Guidelines
Send your submissions as Word documents (no PDFs) to [email protected] no later than midnight, 15 June 2025, Eastern time.
Please include the following details in your submission:
- A title for the article (written in ALL CAPS).
- Author's name, affiliation, city, country, and e-mail.
- A 2-3 sentence abstract or teaser for the newsletter homepage.
- A 2- to 3-sentence author biography.
- No more than five citations.
- Manuscript formatted in MS Word (.doc(x)) or rich text (.rtf).
- An author's photo in jpeg format with a head-and-shoulder shot.
- Articles should adhere to APA style (7th ed.).
Newsletter Editor
Vu Tran-Thanh
School of Education, Durham University, UK
[email protected]