Retelling Stories of Desire in TESOL: English, Imagination, and Encounters in Tourism
Abstract
This article investigates the language learning desire of multilingual tourism workers. The data were drawn from two sites in Nepal: an English for occupational purposes class and workplace interactions during treks. The article shows that the male tourism workers use their claims of heterosexual relationships with foreign female tourists as resources to build and boast their masculine identity and homosociality among their peers. The workers’...
Paper Details
Title
Retelling Stories of Desire in TESOL: English, Imagination, and Encounters in Tourism
Published Date
Apr 15, 2020
Journal
Volume
55
Issue
1
Pages
80 - 104
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