Risk Factors and Resilience Strategies: Voices From Chinese Novice Foreign Language Teachers

In recent years, due to the concern of high rate burnout and attrition teachers in their early career teacher resilience has become a vital theme study professional development. However, little been done China. This contextualized development Chinese universities interviewed seven resilient novice foreign language (FL) explore risk factors confronting them contexts strategies they have employed cope with these challenges. In-depth interview data informants' reflective journals were analyzed inductively by using thematic analysis. The results unfolded peculiar context, novices' adoption was found involve teachers' highly selective dynamic interaction protective factors, individual agency manifested itself as an important factor FL