William Simpson

Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book illustrates how the drive for profit in commercial ELT affects the manner in which language is taught, and is of interest to advanced students, scholars and professionals within applied linguistics, TESOL, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology, language economics and related areas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780367764579
• ISBN-10: 0367764571
• Artikelnr.: 63656347

Autorenporträt

William Simpson is a Junior Associate Professor of the Liberal Arts Department of Tokyo University of Science, Japan. He has published work on language education, ideology, and political economy in the Journal of Sociolinguistics, as well as in special issues of Language Sciences, and Language and Intercultural Communication.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Working in Commercial ELT
Chapter 2. Commodity and Capital
Chapter 3. A Dialectical Approach to Contradiction in Language Work
Chapter 4. Dialectically Defining Eikaiwa
Chapter 5. Work in Commercial Eikaiwa
Chapter 6. Asking Questions of Value
Chapter 7. The Production of the Eikaiwa Lesson
Chapter 8. The Distribution of Value within Eikaiwa
Chapter 9. 'Good Money for Someone, Not Teachers': Class and the
Fetishisation of Capital
Chapter 10. Towards a Political Economy of ELT Globally, and through the
Covid 19 Pandemic
Appendix
Appendix I Transcription Conventions
Index

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Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Working in Commercial ELT

Chapter 2. Commodity and Capital

Chapter 3. A Dialectical Approach to Contradiction in Language Work

Chapter 4. Dialectically Defining Eikaiwa

Chapter 5. Work in Commercial Eikaiwa

Chapter 6. Asking Questions of Value

Chapter 7. The Production of the Eikaiwa Lesson

Chapter 8. The Distribution of Value within Eikaiwa

Chapter 9. 'Good Money for Someone, Not Teachers': Class and the Fetishisation of Capital

Chapter 10. Towards a Political Economy of ELT Globally, and through the Covid 19 Pandemic

Appendix

Appendix I Transcription Conventions

Index

Rezensionen

"Teaching eikaiwa (English conversation) in Japan constitutes a large commercial industry that pursues capitalist profitmaking. Focusing on this marketplace, Simpson's work uniquely illuminates teachers as precarious labourers being expected to produce Taylorised lessons and meet students' satisfaction. The book provides an original perspective on the alienation of English teachers."

Ryuko Kubota, University of British Columbia, Canada