Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives [Hardcover]

This edited volume extends current voluntourism theorizing by critically examining the intersections among various forms of work-leisure travel and language learning/teaching. The books 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. 

1 Introducing Language-Motivated Voluntourism (Cori Jakubiak & Larissa Semiramis Schedel).- Part I: Language-Motivated Voluntourism in Contexts of Leisure and Holiday Travel.- 2Immersion 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,ls#