Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited - Softcover

Byram, Prof. Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800410239 ISBN 13: 9781800410237

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2020

Synopsis

2nd edition of a classic text that has been used around the world in teacher training.

This revised edition of Michael Byram’s classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. Beginning from the premise that foreign and second language teaching should prepare learners to use a language with fluency and accuracy, and also to speak with people who have different cultural identities, social values and behaviours, the book is an invaluable guide for teachers and curriculum developers, taking them from a definition of Intercultural Communicative Competence through planning for teaching to assessment.

This edition refines the definitions of the five ‘savoirs’ of intercultural competence, and includes new sections on issues such as moral relativism and human rights, mediation, intercultural citizenship and teachers’ ethical responsibilities.

About this title

About the Author

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at Durham University, England. Having studied languages at Cambridge University, he taught French and  German in school and adult education and then did teacher education at Durham. He was adviser to the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe and then on the expert group which produced the Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. His research has included the education of minorities, foreign language teaching and intercultural competence, and more recently on how the PhD is experienced and assessed in a range of different countries.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1800410239
• ISBN 13: 9781800410237
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200