Foreign language teaching and education for intercultural citizenship

MELINA PORTO

Santiago del Estero

Conferencia; FAAPI Annual Conference 2014; 2014

FAAPI y British Council

This article describes an online intercultural citizenship project about the environment in the primary English language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and Denmark. It is part of a network of projects coordinated by Michael Byram (Durham University, UK) that involves teachers and researchers in Europe, the US and East Asia. The project is framed within the theory of intercultural citizenship in the foreign language classroom (Byram, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; Lai & Byram, 2012) and it is the only set in the primary school context. Furthermore, developments in Latin America in this field are scarce and the study intends to fill an empirical gap.