Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

Michael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens are in teacher education at the University of Durham. They specialise in the teaching of foreign languages (Byram), geography (Nichols) and English as mother tongue (Stevens) and have found a common interest in the ways in which all these subjects involve cultural issues. They have invited authors from throughout Europe and North America to describe their work in the classroom or in producing teaching materials to develop intercultural competence.

• Alison Phipps: ForewordMichael Byram, Adam Nichols and David Stevens: IntroductionPart 1: In the Classroom Beginners1 Carol Morgan: The International Partnership ProjectIntermediate2 Eva Burwitz-Melzer: Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence through Literature3 Elena Tarasheva and Leah Davcheva: ‘Up the Hills of Identity’Advanced4 Maria Metodieva Genova: Visual Codes and Modes of Presentation of Television News Broadcasts5 Iskra Georgieva: An Approach to Implementing a Cultural Studies Syllabus6 Sylvia Duffy and Janet Mayes: ‘Family Life’ and ‘Regional Identity’ – Comparative Studies while Learning French7 Mary Williams: ‘It Must Be Cultural Because I Don’t Do It’: Cultural Awareness in Initial TESOL Teacher EducationPart 2: Beyond the Classroom Using New Technologies8 Lynne Parmenter and Yuichi Tomita: Virtual Intercultural Competence: A Programme for Japanese Elementary School Students9 Sheila Carel: Students as Virtual Ethnographers: Exploring the Language Culture-Connection10 Clare Dodd: Working in Tandem: an Anglo-French Project11 Paul Whittaker: New Tools for Old Tricks: Information and Communication Technology in Teaching British Cultural StudiesIn the Field12 Jane Woodin: Tandem Learning as an Intercultural Activity13 Judith Parsons and Peter Junge: ‘Why Do Danes Put Their Elderly in Nursing Homes?’ – Working Outside the Classroom with Adult Second Language LearnersPart 3: Developing Resources 14 Leon Aktor and Karen Risager: Cultural Understanding in Danish Schools15 Tanya Madjarova, Magdalena Botsmanova and Tanya Stamatova: ‘I Thought My Teacher Fancied Me’16 Krassimira Topuzova: British and Bulgarian Christmas Cards: A Research Project for Students17 Françoise Vigneron: Study of Landscapes as an Approach to Openness to OthersFurther Reading Index