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Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

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Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives

Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching: Critical Perspectives by Larissa Semiramis Schedel, Cori Jakubiak
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 306 Pages | ISBN : 3031408128 | 6.4 MB

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.

Fostering Linguistic Equality: The SISE Approach to the Introductory Linguistics Course

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Fostering Linguistic Equality: The SISE Approach to the Introductory Linguistics Course

Fostering Linguistic Equality: The SISE Approach to the Introductory Linguistics Course by Sarah E. Hercula
English | PDF,EPUB | 2020 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 3030416895 | 3 MB

“The author’s call to action- that it is incumbent on linguists to work towards societal change- is one we should heed. Hercula encourages linguists to refocus the introductory linguistics course to not only educate about how language works and how linguists study it, but to work more deeply to change attitudes towards stigmatized language varieties by in-depth investigation of those varieties, ensuring that everyone goes away with enduring understanding and a desire to change the world.” –Kristin Denham, Western Washington University, USA