The identities and wellbeing of EFL Costa Rican teachers

Bio: Carlos Murillo-Miranda is currently a PhD student at the ELT Research and Methodology section at the University of Graz and is working on his dissertation entitled "An ecological perspective on Costa Rican EFL teachers' identities and wellbeing". His research interests include all aspects of the psychology of language learning and teaching, particularly language learners' and teachers' well-being, language teachers' identities, and language teacher educators’ emotions. Carlos is a board member in the International Association for the Psychology of Language Learning, and an Associate Editor for The Journal for the Psychology of Language Learning.

Description of the meeting: Teacher wellbeing is often perceived as a personal, individual issue. However, work within the field of language education and beyond has increasingly argued for the role of social and systemic issues in determining individual and collective wellbeing. Language teachers lead personal lives that interplay with their professional ones contributing together to their holistic experience…