Yesim Bektas-Cetinkaya is an associate professor in the Department of Foreign Language Education at Dokuz Eylul University in Izmir, Turkey. She has an M.A. and a Ph.D. in foreign language education from Ohio State University (USA). Her research interests include intercultural communication, affective variables in foreign language education, teacher education and language literacy. She has published several articles in international journals, book chapters and books.

• Yeşim Bektaş-ÇetinkayaIntroduction: English(es) and Culture in Language Teaching Elif Kemaloglu-Er and Esma Biricik Deniz1 Defining ELF as a Sociolinguistic Concept and a Pedagogical Perspective Servet Çelik and Şakire Erbay Çetinkaya2 Culture in English Language Teacher Education Programs: Strivingfor Intercultural Communicative Competence Eda Nur Özcan and Esim Gürsoy3 The Representation of Culture into ELT Materials Mehmet Galip Zorba and Arda Arikan4 Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence throughLiterature Berna Güryay5 Developing Intercultural Competence through Creative Drama Gonca Yangın Ekşi and Asuman Aşık6 Raising Intercultural Awareness through Technology Claudia Nickolson and Arda Arikan7 Developing Intercultural Competence through Movies Ceylan Yangın Ersanlı and Deren Başak Akman Yeşilel8 Raising Intercultural Awareness of Young Learners Bengü Börkan9 Classroom Assessment of L2 Cultural Knowledge Tarkan Kaçmaz10 Conflict Resolution in Intercultural Communications Contributors

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