English‐language voluntourism is a practice in which Global North, often young and inexperienced, volunteers teach English in the Global South on a short‐term basis as a form of alternative travel. Like other forms of volunteer tourism, English‐language voluntourism is characterized as global citizenship education for visiting volunteers and as development assistance for host communities. Drawing upon data collected as a part of a larger, multisited ethnography—which included participant‐observation in three different contexts, qualitative interviews with current and former volunteers, and a content analysis of English‐language voluntourism promotional materials—I argue that the practice’s dominant discourses promote a limited view of language ‐in ‐education and development and the role(s) of civic action in social change. By framing short‐term, unskilled, English language teaching (ELT) as a Global South development initiative, English‐language voluntourism discourse extends to vulnerable others the same, individualistic, market‐based logic to which volunteers, themselves, are increasingly exposed. This logic defines nation‐states as economic competitors rather than guarantors of rights, and it casts the ideal citizen‐subject as a shape‐shifting, risk‐taking, life‐long learner who can mitigate economic volatility alone. For the most part, volunteer participants take up these discourses and frame their service as meeting one of two goals: increasing a nation‐state’s competitive advantage by building its English language capacity, or helping individual people escape poverty alone by equipping them with the value‐added skill, English. Global citizenship education through English‐language voluntourism thus aligns with the interests of neoliberal governance rather than other, more progressive, social agendas, and it does little to help volunteers engage with the cultural politics of global ELT.

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“英语无所不在，您必须与程序相处”：语言工具主义，全球公民教育和英语志愿服务

英语志愿服务是一种实践，在这种实践中，环球北部（通常是年轻且没有经验的志愿者）在环球南部短期内以替代旅行的形式教英语。与其他形式的志愿旅游一样，英语志愿服务的特点是为来访的志愿人员提供全球公民教育，并为接待社区提供发展援助。我认为，收集的数据是较大的，多地点的人种志的一部分，其中包括在三种不同情况下的参与者观察，对现任和前任志愿者的定性访谈以及对英语志愿服务宣传材料的内容分析，我认为这种做法占主导地位话语促进了人们对语言的教育和发展以及公民行动在社会变革中的作用的有限观点。通过短期构架，作为全球南方发展计划的非熟练英语教学（ELT），英语志愿服务话语向弱势群体扩展了相同的，基于个人的，基于市场的逻辑，志愿者们自己也越来越受到这种逻辑的关注。这种逻辑将民族国家定义为经济竞争者，而不是权利的保证者，并将理想的公民主体转变为能够减轻经济动荡的，不断变化的，承担风险的，终生的学习者。在大多数情况下，志愿者参加这些课程，并将其服务构想为达到以下两个目标之一：通过建立英语语言能力来提高民族国家的竞争优势，或者通过为他们提供价值观念来帮助个人摆脱贫困。附加技能，英语。