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Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Schedel, Larissa Semiramis
Jakubiak, Cori

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics

LinguisticsAnthropologyGeneral Education

ISBN10: 3031408128
ISBN13: 9783031408120
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Dec 29 2023
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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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