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Episode 52: Teacher Wellbeing & Learner Engagement Show Notes

This episode was based around the short, 2026 thinkpiece by Sarah Mercer & Jasrael Stokes. It's available at the link (no paywall) in the citation:

Mercer, S., & Stokes, J. (2026). The chicken and the egg: The interplay between language teacher wellbeing and learner engagement. Electronic Journal of Foreign Language Teaching [e-FLT], 23 (Supplement), 2–8. https://doi.org/10.56040/smjs2311

Intro & outro music selected from "23 Light Years" by CavalloPazzo

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Diane Neubauer, PhD & Reed Riggs, PhD

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