Seminar on “Emotions in English language classrooms – An insight into emotion vocabulary assessment”

Emotions shape cognition and learning, strongly affecting how people acquire and use languages. In English as an additional language, learners need to recognise, understand, express, manage, and navigate feelings.

International frameworks

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importance of expressing a wide range of emotional states, yet English textbooks often offer too narrow a repertoire. This gap is widened when teachers-both pre-service and in-service—lack the emotion vocabulary and confidence to weave it into their practice. This talk outlines why emotional vocabulary matters in the ESL classroom and shares practical methods for teaching and assessing it. We present findings from our study, including a comprehensive list of English emotion words and adaptive vignette-based assessments, and leave attendees with strategies to boost learning outcomes and engagement.