Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives (1st ed. 2023) (Palgrave Advances in Language and Linguistics)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2023

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ISBN-13:
9783031408137
Related ISBNs:
9783031408120
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Education, Social Studies, Language Arts, Philosophy, Sociology
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Edited by:
Larissa Semiramis Schedel
Edited by:
Cori Jakubiak

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