Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Author:   Larissa Semiramis Schedel ,  Cori Jakubiak
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
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9783031408120


Pages:   300
Publication Date:   29 December 2023
Format:   Hardback
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This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching. The book’s contributors investigate volunteer tourism and its cognates such as working holidaymaking, international internships, and gap year labor, as discursive fields in which powerful ideas about language(s), their speakers, and pedagogical practices are propagated worldwide. The various authors’ chapters shed light on the hegemony of global English, the social consequences of linguistic commodification and neoliberal rationalities, the ways in which speaker identity positions can alter the exchange value of languages, and how language competencies are tied to power in the labor market, among related topics. This volume will be of interest to readers in Applied Linguistics, Critical Sociolinguistics, Educational and Linguistic Anthropology, Tourism and Leisure Studies, Migration and Mobility Studies, and Language Teaching and Learning. 

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Author:   Larissa Semiramis Schedel ,  Cori Jakubiak
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2023
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9783031408120


ISBN 10:   3031408128
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   29 December 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1 Introducing Language-Motivated Voluntourism Part I Language-Motivated Voluntourism in Contexts of Leisure and Holiday Travel 2 Immersion as Language Ideology and Other Discourses in English-Language Voluntourism 3 Becoming “TEFL Certified”: Professionalization, Certification, and Commodification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Volunteer Tourism 4 Translating the Value of Global Languages: Learning/Teaching Spanish/English Within Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Per 5 The Off-Duty Expectations of International Volunteer Language Teachers: A Middling Transnational Perspective Part II Language-Motivated Voluntourism as Precarious Labor 6 Dreaming of Entrepreneurship, Europe, English, and Freedom: Voluntourism as a Pure Survival Strategy 7 Institutionalized Volunteerism in Language Tourism: Volunteer Internship Programs for South Korean Young Adults Studying English in Toronto 8 Voluntelling the Voluntoured: State-Prompted South Korean English Language and Labor Mobility in Australia 9 “Gaps,” Workers with No Schedule: The Making of Casual Workers in Two Northern Irish Boarding Schools 10 Afterword: The Wages of Global Experience, Post Unit Thinking, and Post Native Speaker Ideologies in Volunteer Tourism

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Larissa Semiramis Schedel is a postdoctoral researcher in critical sociolinguistics at the University of Bonn, Germany. Her research interests include language and work (especially in the tourism industry), language travel, and on-the-job language learning.  Cori Jakubiak is an associate professor of education at Grinnell College, USA. Her research program examines ideologies of global citizenship, native speakerism, and language as a commodity within English-language voluntourism and language tourism. 

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