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Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education

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Book 2022

Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond

Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices

Troy McConachy, Irina Golubeva, Manuela Wagner

Volume 38 in this series

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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. The book offers comprehensive, up-to-date and accessible knowledge for researchers, teachers, teacher-trainers and students.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613
ISBN:: 9781800412613
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2022

Person to Person Peacebuilding, Intercultural Communication and English Language Teaching

Voices from the Virtual Intercultural Borderlands

Amy Jo Minett, Sarah E. Dietrich, Didem Ekici

Volume 37 in this series

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This book maps person to person peacebuilding as it intersects with, and is embedded in, intercultural communication. It foregrounds the voices and discourses of participants in an intercultural online service-learning project focused on peace through education in Afghanistan, primarily through synchronous English language tutoring.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788927093
ISBN:: 9781788927093
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2022

An Intercultural Approach to English Language Teaching

John Corbett

Volume 36 in this series

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This is a thoroughly revised, updated and expanded edition of a practical introduction to intercultural education for teachers of English as a second language. This new edition addresses developments in the field since the publication of the 1st edition, including the impact of online resources for English language education.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788928625
ISBN:: 9781788928625
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2020

Language, Culture and Identity in Two Chinese Community Schools

More than One Way of Being Chinese?

Sara Ganassin

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This book investigates the social, political and educational role of community language education in migratory contexts. It draws on an ethnographic study that investigates the significance of Mandarin-Chinese community schooling in Britain as an intercultural space for those involved.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781788927239
ISBN:: 9781788927239
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2002

Intercultural Experience and Education

Geof Alred, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming

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This book explores the educational significance of intercultural experience. It offers a broader conception of interculturality than commonly found in the area of foreign language teaching. It aims to encourage dialogue and interchange across this range, and beyond, to stimulate thinking about the educational value of intercultural experience.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596087
ISBN:: 9781853596087
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2012

Intercultural Dialogue in Practice

Managing Value Judgment through Foreign Language Education

Stephanie Ann Houghton

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This book explores the wide-ranging terminology relevant to intercultural dialogue. It reports on a research project that explored the management of value judgment in foreign language education to overcome prejudice, which is a key dynamic in intercultural dialogue that brings many other factors into play.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697264
ISBN:: 9781847697264
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Communication Science
Subject:: Communication Science, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2006

Living and Studying Abroad

Research and Practice

Michael Byram, Anwei Feng

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Studies of students who travel to other countries for study. It includes students travelling within Europe, from Europe and America to East Asia and China and vice versa. The articles report the results of research and also give detailed accounts of the research methods used, and this will be particularly useful to other researchers.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599125
ISBN:: 9781853599125
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2007

Language and Culture Pedagogy

From a National to a Transnational Paradigm

Karen Risager

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This book presents a view of what it means to teach language and culture in a world characterised by transnational flows of people, commodities and ideas. It contains an analysis of the national tradition of culture teaching as an aspect of foreign language teaching and proposes a transnational framework for language and culture pedagogy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599613
ISBN:: 9781853599613
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2015

Teachers as Mediators in the Foreign Language Classroom

Michelle Kohler

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This book uses examples of classroom interaction to reveal how teachers of languages act as intercultural mediators and the implications of this for practice. The book offers an account of what teachers are thinking, feeling and doing as they enact an intercultural perspective on language teaching and learning.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783093076
ISBN:: 9781783093076
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2010

Language in the Academy

Cultural Reflexivity and Intercultural Dynamics

Joan Turner

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This book tdiscusses why issues of language in higher education are routinely marginalised, despite the internationalisation of universities. It locates the construction of rhetorical norms and values for academic writing within wider cultural practices and power relations and observes the transformative dynamic of intercultural communication.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847693235
ISBN:: 9781847693235
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2014

Young Children as Intercultural Mediators

Mandarin-speaking Chinese Families in Britain

Zhiyan Guo

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This ethnographic study presents a detailed depiction of family life in immigrant Chinese communities. Utilising a strongly contextualised and evidence-based narrative approach to exploring the nature of child cultural mediation, the author provides an insightful analysis of intercultural relationships between children and parents.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783092147
ISBN:: 9781783092147
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Sociology, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2017

Teaching Intercultural Competence Across the Age Range

From Theory to Practice

Manuela Wagner, Dorie Conlon Perugini, Michael Byram

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Focusing on the teaching and learning of intercultural communicative competence in foreign language classrooms in the USA, this ground-breaking book is the first to describe in detail how teachers, supported by university educators and education advisers, might plan and implement innovative ideas based on sound theoretical foundations.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783098910
ISBN:: 9781783098910
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2015

Intercultural Learning in Modern Language Education

Expanding Meaning-Making Potentials

Erin Kearney

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This book presents an ethnographic study of a modern language classroom where students not only learn to speak, read, listen or write a new language, but where they also learn to understand, to feel and to be in new ways, and to potentially transform themselves and the world around them through language study.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783094684
ISBN:: 9781783094684
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2010

TheIntercultural Dynamics of Multicultural Working

Maria Manuela Guilherme, Evelyne Glaser, María del Carmen Méndez-García

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This book is a theoretical and practical discussion of intercultural communication and interaction and is aimed at academic courses as well as professional development programmes. It focuses, from a critical perspective, on the intercultural dynamics established between the members of multicultural teams in various types of work environments.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847692870
ISBN:: 9781847692870
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2008

From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship

Essays and Reflections

Michael Byram

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This book analyses the evolution of theory of intercultural competence and its relationship to education for citizenship. It analyses the concepts of intercultural competence by discussing the ways in which language education policy develops and by comparing the theories and purposes of foreign language education and education for citizenship.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690807
ISBN:: 9781847690807
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2002

Critical Citizens for an Intercultural World

Foreign Language Education as Cultural Politics

Maria Manuela Guilherme

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This book offers theoretical foundations and practical proposals for the development of critical cultural awareness and intercultural communication competence among prospective and practising foreign language/culture educators. It proposes an enhanced cultural and political role for educators in this area.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596117
ISBN:: 9781853596117
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2003

Context and Culture in Language Teaching and Learning

Michael Byram, Peter Grundy

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The forces of globalisation and internationalisation influence the role and significance of language teaching and learning in classrooms. This affects the ways in which English is taught and learnt. This book explores the ways in which the contexts in which language teaching takes place impact on the aims and the methods of language teaching.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596728
ISBN:: 9781853596728
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2002

How Different are We?

Spoken Discourse in Intercultural Communication

Helen Fitzgerald

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This book examines the influence of cultural values and communication styles on intercultural communication and demonstrates how training can develop intercultural communication competencies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596216
ISBN:: 9781853596216
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2001

Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

Michael Byram, Adam Nichols, David Stevens

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This book provides practical help for teachers who wish to help their learners acquire intercultural competence in the ordinary classroom. It contains descriptions of lessons and materials from a wide range of classrooms in several countries and for beginners to advanced learners.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853595356
ISBN:: 9781853595356
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2013

Developing Critical Languaculture Pedagogies in Higher Education

Theory and Practice

Adriana Raquel Díaz

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This book focuses on narrowing the gap between the often conflicting theoretical and practical imperatives faced by language teachers in an internationalised higher education context. It provides conceptual discussions of emerging critical intercultural language pedagogies as well as empirical accounts and case studies from the frontline.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783090365
ISBN:: 9781783090365
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2018

Representations of the World in Language Textbooks

Karen Risager

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This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its diversities and problems.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099566
ISBN:: 9781783099566
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2003

Audible Difference

ESL and Social Identities in Schools

Jennifer Miller

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This book is about the relationship between learning English as an additional language and the ways in which immigrant students are able to represent their identities at school. In high schools, how such students are heard by others may be just as important as how they speak.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596438
ISBN:: 9781853596438
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2003

AnIntercultural Approach to English Language Teaching

John Corbett

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Intercultural language education has redefined the modern languages agenda in Europe and North America. It is now also beginning to impact on English Language Teaching. This book introduces teachers of EFL to intercultural language education by describing its history and theoretical principles, and by giving examples of classroom tasks.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853596858
ISBN:: 9781853596858
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2004

Vernacular Palaver

Imaginations of the Local and Non-Native Languages in West Africa

Moradewun Adejunmobi

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This book highlights the continuing appeal of local identities for participants in social networks where communication occurs in languages that are not mother tongues.It demonstrates the importance of notions of localness and locality for speakers of non-native languages, despite the growing prominence of global languages in their lives.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597749
ISBN:: 9781853597749
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2011

Language and Learning in the International University

From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity

Bent Preisler, Ida Klitgård, Anne Fabricius

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Based on a series of studies from universities around the world, this book suggests that internationalization does not equate with across-the-board use of English, and instead represents a new cultural and linguistic hybridity with the potential to develop new identities unfettered by traditional 'us-and-them' binary thinking.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847694157
ISBN:: 9781847694157
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2007

Online Intercultural Exchange

An Introduction for Foreign Language Teachers

Robert O'Dowd

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This book explores online intercultural exchange, the activity of engaging learners in collaborative project work with partners from other cultures using online communication technology. It examines how online collaboration can be integrated into the foreign language classroom and can improve students’ intercultural communicative competence.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690104
ISBN:: 9781847690104
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2004

Critical Pedagogy

Political Approaches to Languages and Intercultural Communication

Alison Phipps, Maria Manuela Guilherme

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Critical Pedagogy, as a movement and an intellectual field, engages with the political and ideological questions raised in educational practices. In this book the respective fields of languages, intercultural communication and critical pedagogy are brought into dialogue, dissent and reflection.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853597541
ISBN:: 9781853597541
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2005

Foreign Language Teachers and Intercultural Competence

An Investigation in 7 Countries of Foreign Language Teachers' Views and Teaching Practices

Lies Sercu

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This book reports on a study that focused on teachers’ beliefs regarding intercultural competence teaching in foreign language education. It creates new knowledge on the variability, and relative consistency, of today’s foreign language teachers’ views regarding intercultural competence teaching in a number of countries.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853598456
ISBN:: 9781853598456
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2006

Language and Culture

Global Flows and Local Complexity

Karen Risager

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The book presents a new theory of the relationship between language and culture in a transnational and global perspective. The view is that languages spread across cultures, and cultures spread across languages, or in other words, that linguistic and cultural practices flow through social networks in the world along partially different paths.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853598609
ISBN:: 9781853598609
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Sociolinguistics
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2017

Developing Intercultural Perspectives on Language Use

Exploring Pragmatics and Culture in Foreign Language Learning

Troy McConachy

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Many teachers recognise the importance of integrating intercultural learning into language learning. This book argues that teachers can work creatively with conventional resources and utilise classroom experiences in order to help learners develop awareness of the influence of cultural assumptions and values on language use.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099337
ISBN:: 9781783099337
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2012

TheCommon European Framework of Reference

The Globalisation of Language Education Policy

Michael Byram, Lynne Parmenter

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A comparative study of the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages produced by the Council of Europe in 2001, this book asks writers in European countries and countries in the Americas and Asia to explain the influence of the CEFR. For each country there is a policy-maker and an academic perspective.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697318
ISBN:: 9781847697318
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2017

Going Performative in Intercultural Education

International Contexts, Theoretical Perspectives and Models of Practice

John Crutchfield, Manfred Schewe

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Contributors from various contexts explore the extent to which performative approaches, emphasising the role of the body as a learning medium, can achieve deep intercultural learning and create rich opportunities for intercultural encounters that transport students beyond the parameters of conventional approaches to language and culture education.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783098552
ISBN:: 9781783098552
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2016

The Cultural and Intercultural Dimensions of English as a Lingua Franca

Prue Holmes, Fred Dervin

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This book investigates the cultural and intercultural aspects of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF). The chapters consider the communication and pedagogical implications of these dimensions and offer suggestions for new directions in ELF research, pedagogy and curriculum development.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783095100
ISBN:: 9781783095100
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2016

From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship

Michael Byram, Irina Golubeva, Han Hui, Manuela Wagner

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This volume examines how foreign language learners and teachers think about citizenship and interculturality. It presents a new theory of intercultural citizenship and demonstrates how it can be fostered in practice. It describes how teachers in schools and universities can work together across continents to develop new curricula and pedagogy.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783096565
ISBN:: 9781783096565
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Applied Linguistics
Subject:: Language Teaching and Learning
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2007

Deep Culture

The Hidden Challenges of Global Living

Joseph Shaules

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This book reviews the hidden cultural challenges of adapting to life abroad. Combining intercultural theory with the lived experiences of sojourners, it reviews key concepts, introduces a cultural learning model, explains hidden barriers to intercultural sensitivity, and brings clarity to debates about globalization and cultural difference.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847690180
ISBN:: 9781847690180
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Sociology
Subject:: Social Structures, Social Interaction, Population, Social Anthropology
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2012

English in Medical Education

An Intercultural Approach to Teaching Language and Values

Peih-ying Lu, John Corbett

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This book addresses recent developments in medical and language education. Both fields have broadened their focus on clinical expertise and linguistic skills to address issues of cultural competence. The book re-imagines the language classroom in medical settings as an arena for the exploration of values and professional identity.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847697776
ISBN:: 9781847697776
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Germanic Languages
Subject:: English
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2006

Education for Intercultural Citizenship

Concepts and Comparisons

Geof Alred, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming

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This book examines citizenship education from the perspective of interculturality in order to extend its meaning and significance within and beyond the nation state, and in education in the nation state. There are chapters which deal with theory and concepts and others which present country and international case studies.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781853599200
ISBN:: 9781853599200
Subject:: Social Sciences
Subject:: Education
Subject:: Education, other
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters

Book 2009

Becoming Interculturally Competent through Education and Training

Anwei Feng, Michael Byram, Mike Fleming

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This book demonstrates the complementarity of educational and training approaches to developing intercultural competence as represented by those who work in commercial training and those who work in further and higher education. It does so by presenting chapters of analysis and chapters describing courses in the two sectors.

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847691644
ISBN:: 9781847691644
Subject:: Linguistics and Semiotics
Subject:: Theoretical Frameworks and Disciplines
Subject:: Philosophy of Language
Publisher:: Multilingual Matters