Voluntourism and Language Learning/Teaching

Larissa Semiramis 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.

• 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, 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).