In this article, I examine the potential roles of reflective writing in ESOL teachers' learning and professional renewal. I demonstrate its importance with insights from aspects of a study on the accounts ESOL teachers construct when they do write about teaching.

The study of pre-service teachers’ emotions has long been marginalized within the field teaching English to speakers other languages (TESOL). Yet, with advent a sociocultural turn in and an emotional educational science, there growing interest role would-be professional learning. purpose this is examine demographic (i.e. year publication, contributing countries methodologies used) topical trend...

TESOL Quarterly will occasionally feature debates and discussions on emerging topics of interest in the profession. Leading scholars who represent diverse perspectives will comment briefly on the topic. In this issue, we focus on the place of pedagogical implications in the research articles we publish and, by extension, the connection between research and pedagogy in general. This symposium wa...