@article{Lotherington_2007, title={Diary of an Edu-Tourist in Costa Rica: An Autoethnographical Account of Learning Spanish}, volume={24}, url={https://teslcanadajournal.ca/index.php/tesl/article/view/141}, DOI={10.18806/tesl.v24i2.141}, abstractNote={ This article presents an autoethnographical account of my foray into Spanish immersion education in Costa Rica as a professor of multilingual education at a university in Canada. This language-learning journey was inspired by curiosity about the growing trend for Internet marketing of second-language learning as a form of tourism, which I label edu-tourism. I map the course of my edu-tourism experience, contemplating second-language learning in a local context, describing professionalism in private language teaching institutes, comparing pedagogical practice across various Spanish-as-a-second-language teachers, and documenting my experiential sociopragmatic acquisition of textbook Spanish.}, number={2}, journal={TESL Canada Journal}, author={Lotherington, Heather}, year={2007}, month={Jun.}, pages={109–131} }