Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence (Multilingual Matters) - Softcover

Byram, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 185359377X ISBN 13: 9781853593772

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1997

Synopsis

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. This text aims to define precisely what competencies are required, how these can be included in teachers' objectives and methods, and how the ability to communicate across cultural differences can be assessed.

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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: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 185359377X
• ISBN 13: 9781853593772
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136