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The presentation focuses on the concept of EQ in the area of language teaching. Considerable attention has been given to the studies of teachers’ EQ, only few of them were performed in the Russian educational context. The presentation 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, the only course for the language teachers was found in the UK. As for Russia, only one EI development programme for teachers was found.