Emotional intelligence studies in the UK, the USA and Russia

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by Anastasia Mitrofanova

Lomonosov Moscow State University
Faculty of Foreign Languages and Area Studies

asya-mitrofanova@yandex.ru

Abstract

The work focuses on the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) in the area of language teaching. Even though considerable attention has been given to the studies of teachers’ EI, only a few of them were performed in the Russian educational context. The article compares the ways and the extent of work that is done in the USA, the UK, and Russia to develop the EI skills of language teachers. The research has shown that there is a wide range of private EI development programs for teachers in the USA; however, only one course for language teachers was found in the UK and, similarly, only one course was found in Russia.

Key words: emotional intelligence, language teaching, educational standards, teacher education

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