Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Abbreviations -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction to Language Teacher Psychology -- 2. Language Teacher Motivation -- 3. 'The English Class of My Dreams': Envisioning Teaching a Foreign Language -- 4. Language Teacher Motivation: From the Ideal to the Feasible Self -- 5. Drawing on Cultural Models and Figured Worlds to Study Language Teacher Education and Teacher Identity -- 6. Exploring Novice EFL Teachers' Identity Development: A Case Study of Two EFL Teachers in China -- 7. Language Teacher Cognition: An Emergent Phenomenon in an Emergent Field -- 8. Language Teachers' Self-effi cacy Beliefs: An Introduction -- 9. Teacher Emotions and the Emotional Labour of Second Language Teaching -- 10. The Relational Beliefs and Practices of Highly Socioemotionally Competent Language Teachers -- 11. Variation in ESL/EFL Teachers' Attitudes towards their Students -- 12. Language Teacher Agency -- 13. Teachers Crafting Job Crafting -- 14. Teachstrong: The Power of Teacher Resilience for Second Language Practitioners -- 15. Making the Transition into Teacher Education: Resilience as a Process of Growth -- 16. Signature Strengths as a Gateway to Mentoring: Facilitating Emergent Teachers' Transition into Language Teaching -- 17. Psychological Insights from Third-age Teacher Educators: A Narrative, Multiple-case Study -- 18. Exploring Language Teacher Psychology: A Case Study from a Holistic Perspective -- 19. Conclusion: Lessons Learned, Promising Perspectives -- Index