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Record W4414124237 · doi:10.63887/jse.2025.1.6.5

Emotional Reflexivity in Language Education

2025· article· en· W4414124237 on OpenAlexaff
Ruoxin Mao

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Sociology and Education · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsWestern University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReflexivityEmotional exhaustionSocial emotional learningEmotional expressionEmotional competenceEmpathyReflection (computer programming)Cultural diversity

Abstract

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This paper explores the concept and significance of emotional reflexivity in language education, emphasizing how teachers' emotions shape their pedagogical decisions, classroom interactions, and professional identities. Emotional reflexivity, understood as the critical examination of one's own emotions within teaching contexts, integrates personal reflection with social critique, highlighting how institutional and cultural norms influence teachers' emotional responses. The analysis identifies common emotional challenges faced by second language teachers, including linguistic insecurity among non-native speakers, cultural tensions in multicultural classrooms, and emotional exhaustion stemming from workload pressures. By examining the interplay between teachers' emotions and classroom practices, the paper reveals how emotional states influence decision-making processes, teacher-student relationships, classroom atmosphere, and the willingness to address social issues. To address these emotional dimensions effectively, several strategies for fostering emotional reflexivity are proposed, such as reflective journaling, collaborative dialogue within professional communities, scenario re-enactments, and critical questioning of one's emotional reactions. Ultimately, the paper argues for the integration of emotional reflexivity into teacher education programs as a means of promoting emotionally responsive, ethical, and equity-oriented language teaching. Through cultivating emotional reflexivity, teachers are better equipped to navigate the complexities of their roles, creating inclusive and empathetic educational environments.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.011
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.035
Scholarly communication0.0110.008
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0020.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.361
Teacher spread0.338 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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