Foreign language teaching and beyond: Intercultural citizenship in the English classroom.

MELINA PORTO

Tolima

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

Universidad del Tolima

In this plenary I will describe 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, 2012, 2014; Byram, Golubeva, Han & Wagner, forthcoming) and it is the only one 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. 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.