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Job-Related Burnout of a Foreign Language Teacher

Summary/Abstract: The teaching profession is characterized by constant emotional engagement accompanied by another factor augmenting the stress level – high social expectations. It follows that this occupation can be exceptionally sensitive to symptoms of job-related burnout. There are three basic mechanisms of this phenomenon: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and feelings of reduced personal accomplishment. According to the research that have been carried out so far, the teaching profession is threatened by high levels of burnout. The foreign language teacher may be extremely susceptible to that syndrome, due to their work with learners whose identity fluctuated under the influence of the foreign language learning process. The worldwide empirical studies point to the fact that the burnout syndrome may affect young teachers who are single, with lower levels of teaching experience, and higher educational levels, who are dissatisfied with their salary.

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