Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, LifeMultilingual Matters, 10 nov. 2006 - 240 pages In this ground-breaking contribution to the study of tourism and languages, Alison Phipps examines what happens when tourists learn to speak other languages. From ordering a coffee to following directions she argues for a new perception of the relationship between tourism and languages from one based on the acquisition of basic, functional skills to one which sustains and even strengthens intercultural dialogue. The twelve chapters comprising this book tell stories of the experience of learning and speaking tourist languages. Drawing on a range of disciplines Alison Phipps takes the reader on a journey through risk, way finding, mistakes, laughter, conversations and the imagination. She provides rich descriptions of the world of language learning which has remained invisible to mainstream studies of language education, existing as it does on the margins of educational life. She shows how tourism is shaped by the learning experiences of everyday life. Languages, she argues passionately, fundamentally change the nature of perception, dwelling and relationships to other people and the world. This book will be essential reading for all those interested in tourism studies and in modern languages education. It is a timely study, coming at time of crisis in languages, as English exerts its power as a world language and as a dominant language of tourism. Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life will also be of interest to anthropologists, linguists, geographers, sociologists and those studying education. |
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... language learning activities: [...] there is a growing tendency for languages to be provided on the margins of the mainstream curriculum in schools, colleges and universities. Language learning may be marginal in the amount of ...
Languaging, Tourism, Life Alison Phipps. pedagogy , language acquisition and , more recently , of the crisis that has beset the formal teaching of languages other than English in schools and universities . Tourist language learning is ...
... learning. My concen- trated identity throughout the tourist language courses and holiday was always primarily that of a tourist language learner. Learning to speak another language – like the learning of other skills, as Ingold notes ...
... languages, tourist languages and other world languages. It is clear that the models and skills agendas of much of intercultural and language training and education can only take us so far and that other tropes and conceptual frameworks ...
... learning of the lan- guage. Language learning is focused on the world of the classroom, even though, as we shall see, the tourist world and tourist imaginings regularly break in to this world. It is focused on performance, often also ...
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Learning the Arts of Linguistic Survival: Languaging, Tourism, Life Alison M. Phipps Affichage d'extraits - 2006 |