Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783031408120 / Angielski

Larissa Semiramis Schedel; Cori Jakubiak

Spis treści

1 Introducing Language-Motivated Voluntourism (Cori Jakubiak & Larissa Semiramis Schedel).- Part I: Language-Motivated Voluntourism in Contexts of Leisure and Holiday Travel.- 2 Immersion as Language Ideology and Other Discourses in English-Language Voluntourism (Cori Jakubiak).- 3 Becoming “TEFL Certified”: Professionalization, Certification, and Commodification in Teaching English as a Foreign Language Volun-teer Tourism (Joshua D. Bernstein).- 4 Translating the Value of Global Languages:  Learning/Teaching Spanish/English within Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Peru (Aviva Sinervo).- 5 The Off-Duty Expectations of International Volunteer Language Teachers: A Middling Transnational Perspective (Kyoko Motobayashi).- Part II: Language-Motivated Voluntourism as Precarious Labor.- 6 Dreaming of Entrepreneurship, Europe, English, and Freedom: Vol-untourism as a Pure Survival Strategy (Larissa Semiramis Schedel).- 7 Institutionalized Volunteerism in Language Tourism: Volunteer In-ternship Programs for South Korean Young Adults Studying English in Toronto (In Chull Jang).- 8 Voluntelling the Voluntoured: State-Prompted South Korean English Language and Labor Mobility in Australia (Carolyn Areum Choi).- 9 “GAPS”, Workers with No Schedule: The Making of Casual Workers in Two Northern Irish Boarding Schools (Jessica McDaid & Andrea Sunyol).- 10 Afterword: The Wages of Global Experience, Post Unit Thinking, and Post Native Speaker Ideologies in Volunteer Tourism (Neriko Musha Doerr).

O autorze

Larissa 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. 

Blurb

“This excellent volume exposes anew the entanglements of language, tourism, and neoliberal/ neocolonial capitalism. Each of the eight case studies reminds us how tourism discourse is to global inequality as “color blindness” is to racism: both are slights of hand conveniently serving the interests of the privileged. In this case, we witness travelers-by-choice exploiting their linguistic capital and reasserting their symbolic power, all under the earnest guise of philanthropy.”

­­—Crispin Thurlow, University of Bern, Switzerland

“Jakubiak and Schedel have put together an excellent collection of work that will be essential reading for scholars of voluntourism. In focusing on language as a motivation for travel, the authors, collectively and individually, have achieved that rare thing: a coherent edited collection that truly advances our understanding.”

—Jim Butcher, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

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. 

Larissa 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.