Schedel / Jakubiak Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching

Critical Perspectives
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-40813-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 300 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics

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. 

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schedel, Larissa Semiramis

Jakubiak, Cori

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.