JALT2025 - Tokyo

Promoting Teacher Empathy: from EFL Pre-service Teachers’ Perceptions

Oct 31, 2025, 4:35 PM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Teacher and Professional Development Room 413

Speaker

Thu Le Hang Nguyen (Vietnam National University, Hanoi)

Description

This presentation will elaborate on the role of teacher empathy and its contributing factors, from the perspectives of the pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language. A qualitative research was conducted with a group of students at a university in Vietnam after their course on Emotional Intelligence and Social Communication. The presentation will provide insights for educators of teacher training programs to include Emotional Intelligence and Social Emotional Learning into language classrooms.

Summary

This presentation will elaborate on the role of teacher empathy and its contributing factors, from the perspectives of the pre-service teachers of English as a foreign language. A qualitative research was conducted with a group of students at a university in Vietnam after their course on Emotional Intelligence and Social Communication. The presentation will provide insights for educators of teacher training programs to include Emotional Intelligence and Social Emotional Learning into language classrooms.