Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

Revisited

By (author) Prof. Michael Byram

Publication date:

08 December 2020

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800410244

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.

Foreword

Preface (2020)

Preface (1997)

Introduction

Chapter 1. Defining and Describing Intercultural Communicative Competence

Chapter 2. A Model for Intercultural Communicative Competence

Chapter 3. Objectives for Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Chapter 4. Curriculum Issues

Chapter 5. Assessment

Chapter 6. Conclusion

Appendix - Glastonbury Public Schools Project

References

Index

With remarkable educational integrity, Michael Byram revisits his highly successful 1997 book and responds to his critics. The result is a rich and thoughtfully revamped version of the original classic, adapted to our multicultural societies and mindful of the need to educate language learners to global intercultural citizenship through intercultural communicative competence. The added sections on mediation, teachers' ethical responsibility, and pluralism and human rights are particularly noteworthy.