Intercultural citizenship in the English classroom in practice: Axioms, characteristics and examples

MELINA PORTO

Tolima

Conferencia; Third Conference on Language Teaching. Language Teaching: Challenges for the 21st Century; 2015

Universidad del Tolima

In this workshop I will describe the theory of intercultural citizenship in the foreign language classroom (Byram, 2008, 2012, 2014; Byram, Golubeva, Han & Wagner, forthcoming). I will also present its axioms and characteristics and I will address the question of what it involves in practice. I will illustrate with specific cases and student samples. Attendees will leave the workshop with a clear idea of how to implement intercultural citizenship projects in their classrooms.ReferencesByram, M. (2008). From Foreign Language education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.Byram, M. (2012). Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship. In Jackson, J. (Ed.). Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication (pp. 85?97). Abingdon, UK, Routledge.Byram, M. (2014). Competence, interaction and action. Developing intercultural citizenship education in the language classroom and beyond. In Xiaodong Dai and Guo-Ming Chen (Eds.). Intercultural Communication Competence: Conceptualization and Its Development in Cultural Contexts and Interactions (pp.190-198). Newcastle/Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Byram, M., Golubeva, I. Han, H. & Wagner, M. (Eds.) (forthcoming). Education for Intercultural Citizenship ? Principles in Practice. Clevedon, Multilingual Matters.