Аннотация:The work focuses on the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) in the area of language
teaching. Even though considerable attention has been given to the studies of teachers’ EI, only
few of them were performed in the Russian educational context. The article compares the ways
and the extent of work that is done in the USA, the UK and Russia to develop the EI skills of
language teachers. The research has shown that there is a wide range of private EI development
programmes for teachers in the USA; however, only one course for language teachers was found
in the UK and, similarly, only one course was found in Russia.