Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited - Softcover

Michael Byram

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800410239 ISBN 13: 9781800410237

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2020

Synopsis

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 the University of Durham, UK. He has published numerous books, including most recently Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice (edited with Manuela Wagner and Dorie Conlon Perugini, Multilingual Matters, 2017).

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