Language teaching has long been associated with teaching in a country or countries where
a target language is spoken, but this approach is inadequate. In the contemporary world …

This revised edition of Michael Byram's classic 1997 book updates the text in light of both
recent research and critiques and commentaries on the 1st edition. Beginning from the …

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations
of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. The …

In this article I argue that the theory of intercultural citizenship in language education
developed by Michael Byram can contribute to broadening CLIL's theoretical outlook and …

An early start in learning an additional language as a focus of national/international
educational policy became prominent in the 1950s. Following a major World War, a new …

English lessons. The message on one of the posters, written in English, Spanish and
Danish, is “Sorting waste is taking care of the environment. We help you, will you help us?” …

This article describes an online intercultural citizenship project concerning the environment
in the primary English-language classroom carried out in 2013/2014 between Argentina and …

The CEFR was conceived as part of the Council of Europe's project 'Language Learning for
European Citizenship'. The social and political context out of which this project grew has …

The fostering of intercultural learning, and variations thereof, is now established as a main
objective of language education. Whilst this is a welcome situation, both theoretical …

The purpose of this study is to extend existing approaches to civic and English as a foreign
language (EFL) literacy education to include critical intercultural citizenship. Students not …