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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:   In Print  
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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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