Capital, Commodity, and English Language Teaching
Author:   William Simpson (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367764579


Pages:   222
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   William Simpson (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.589kg
ISBN:  

9780367764579


ISBN 10:   0367764571
Pages:   222
Publication Date:   28 July 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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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""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


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


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


"""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"


Author Information

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.

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