Ambiguous Aims: English-Language Voluntourism as Development

Autor/in	Jakubiak, Cori
Titel	Ambiguous Aims: English-Language Voluntourism as Development
Quelle	In: Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 15 (2016) 4, S.245-258 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1534-8458
DOI	10.1080/15348458.2016.1195270
Schlagwörter	English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Volunteers; Tourism; Economic Development; Social Change; Self Concept; Educational Objectives; Language Teachers; Ethnography; Travel; Language Attitudes; Interviews; Grounded Theory; Nongovernmental Organizations; Foreign Countries; Semi Structured Interviews; Costa Rica + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Freiwilliger; Tourismus; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Sozialer Wandel; Selbstkonzept; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Ethnografie; Travelling; Reisen; Reise; Sprachverhalten; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ausland
Abstract	"English-language voluntourism" is a practice whereby people from the Global North teach English in the Global South as an alternative form of travel and means of development assistance. As part of a larger, multisited ethnography, I investigate how in-service and former English-language voluntourism program participants frame short-term English language teaching as development. Findings suggest that the relations among volunteer tourism, English, and development remain largely unexamined. It is widely assumed that English is a commodity, a tool that can help individuals, and by consequence, states connect materially to the global economy. Yet, participants also speak in ways that conflate English language learning with cosmopolitanism, cultural change, and deeper forms of identity transformation. In that sense, English-language voluntourism's development agenda is unclear, and akin to other forms of volunteer tourism, English-language voluntourism would benefit from moving away from development discourse and reframing its overall aims. (As Provided).
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