Senior researcher and lecturer at University of Huelva, Spain; Leader of the Spanish research group "Affective factors in the teaching of English." Carmen Fonseca, Ph.D. Session Information: Emotional Intelligence Promoting Secondary Students This presentation examines the potential value of the emotional intelligence teaching in an EFL classroom as a useful method to help students to promote their willingness to communicate and to improve their communicative competence. One of the main aims stated in the Foreign Language Curriculum in Spain is the development of students' communicative competence. However, due to discipline problems or simply teacher and student burnout, the oral skills are neglected in many classrooms and individual grammar and vocabulary activities are essentially the tasks that the secondary EFL learner faces.