Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching

ISBN-13: 9780367764609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 280 str.

William Simpson

Opis

This book illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught, and is of interest to advanced students, scholars and professionals within applied linguistics, TESOL, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, language economics and related areas.

Recenzje

"Teaching eikaiwa (English conversation) in Japan constitutes a large commercial industry that pursues capitalist profitmaking. Focusing on this marketplace, Simpson's work uniquely illuminates teachers as precarious labourers being expected to produce Taylorised lessons and meet students' satisfaction. The book provides an original perspective on the alienation of English teachers."

Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia, Canada