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Critical Auto/Ethnography of Learning Spanish

Phiona Stanley
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backpacker language learning
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Critical Cultural Awareness
critical ethnography in Latin America
El Patio
El Proyecto
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ethnographic research
Evocative Autoethnography
Gringo Trail
Homestay Hosts
Intercultural Communication
Intercultural Competence
intercultural education
interculturally competent
interculture
Intersectional Identities
intersectional identity reflection
intersectionality
La Cooperativa
La Escuelita
langauge ideology
language acquisition
Latin America
Latin American Visual Culture
NGO Project
othering
power dynamics in education
power privilege
qualitative methodology
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social inequality
Source Insights
Spanish Language
speech community
Study Abroad Courses
Vice Versa
Volunteer Tourism
White Saviour Complex
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138898950
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Nov 2016
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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The premise that intercultural contact produces intercultural competence underpins much rationalization of backpacker tourism and in-country language education. However, if insufficiently problematized, pre-existing constructions of cultural 'otherness' may hinder intercultural competence development. This is nowhere truer than in contexts in which wide disparities of power, wealth, and privilege exist, and where such positionings may go unproblematized. This study contributes to theoretical understandings of how intercultural competence develops through intercultural contact situations through a detailed, multiple case study of three conceptually comparable contexts in which Western backpackers study Spanish in Latin America. This experience, often 'bundled' with home-stay, volunteer work, social, and tourist experiences, offers a rich set of empirical data within which to understand the nature of intercultural competence and the processes through which it may be developed. Models of a single, context-free, transferable intercultural competence are rejected. Instead, suggestions are made as to how educators might help prepare intercultural sojourners by scaffolding their intercultural reflections and problematizing their own intersectional identities and their assumptions. The study is a critical ethnography with elements of autoethnographic reflection. The book therefore also contributes to development of this qualitative research methodology and provides an empirical example of its application.

About Phiona Stanley
Phiona Stanley is a Senior Lecturer in Education at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Her research is primarily about intercultural identity constructions in international education. She has written about Western teachers in China, English language schools in Australia, qualitative research methods, and the lived experience of doing a PhD. She is now researching ‘language grading’, in which native English speakers attempt to make their own English more internationally intelligible. Dr Stanley's professional background is in English language education and she has worked in Peru, Poland, the UK, China, Australia, and Qatar.

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