This book provides a contemporary and critical examination of the theoretical and pedagogical impact of Michael Byram’s pioneering work on intercultural communicative competence and intercultural citizenship within the field of language education and beyond. The chapters address important theoretical and empirical work on the teaching, learning, and assessment of intercultural learning, and highlight how individual language educators and communities of practice enact intercultural learning in locally appropriate ways. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.
Troy McConachy is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warwick, UK. He is the author of Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use: Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning (2017, Multilingual Matters).
Irina Golubeva is Associate Professor and Director of the Master’s Program in Intercultural Communication in the Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). Her main research interests concern the development of intercultural competence and multilingual awareness, internationalization of Higher Education, and conceptualization of active intercultural citizenship. She is strongly committed to non-profit work and served for seven years as a Vice-President of the European Association of Teachers. Most recently, she was elected to serve on the Board of the International Academy of Intercultural Research.
Manuela Wagner is Professor of Language Education at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the integration of intercultural dialogue and intercultural citizenship education (Byram, 2008) and across the curriculum from elementary school through post-secondary education. She is particularly interested in the interplay of theory and practice and has been part of and helped create communities of practice to implement theories of Intercultural Competence and Citizenship as well as related conceptual frameworks (theories of criticality, intercultural communication, social justice, intellectual humility, the Glocademia matrix (Guilherme, 2022)) in practice. The resulting book projects include the co-edited volumes Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice (2018) and Education for Intercultural Citizenship: Principles in Practice (2017), and the co-authored book Teaching Intercultural Citizenship Across the Curriculum: The Role of Language Education (2019).
