Workplace Well-Being of L2 Instructors in Higher Education: Thriving through the PRISM-CO Model
FLE Joint Conference, Ankara, Türkiye, 12 Haziran 2026, ss.13-14, (Özet Bildiri)
- Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
- Basıldığı Şehir: Ankara
- Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.13-14
- Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Workplace
Well-Being of L2 Instructors in Higher Education: Thriving through the PRISM-CO
Model
This qualitative study examines higher education L2 instructors’
workplace well-being through the PRISM model (Prospection, Resilience,
Innovation, Social Support, and Mattering). Semi-structured interviews with 16
instructors across five countries were analyzed using abductive thematic
analysis with valence coding. Findings show that each PRISM capacity can foster
thriving when working conditions enable future planning, recovery,
experimentation, belonging, and recognition; however, under overload,
precarity, and marginalization, these same capacities take on a double-edged
nature and may intensify strain. Inductive analysis further identified
Collective Optimization (PRISM-CO) as a cross-cutting coordinated mechanism
through which instructors make PRISM enactable in everyday work. We propose
PRISM-CO as an extension of PRISM that connects individual strengths to
collective governance. The study highlights actionable institutional levers to
make L2 instructors’ workplace thriving more durable.
Keywords: workplace well-being, L2 instructors, higher education,
the PRISM model, Collective Optimization (PRISM-CO)