2 Introduction were typically concerned with intracultural communication, in other words
communication within social or cultural groups. Much less attention has been given to …

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 article examines the role of cultural awareness (CA) and intercultural awareness (ICA)
in classroom theory and practice. CA and ICA can be roughly characterised as an …

This textbook introduces current thinking on English as a global language and explores its
role in intercultural and transcultural communication. It covers how English functions as a …

torical survey of language and intercultural communication studies with a critical assessment
of past and present theory, research, and practice, as well as an insight into future directions …

Language learning involves four skills named as reading, listening, writing, and speaking for
learners to practice both in and outside the classroom. Interaction in the class may be limited …

In Teacher Cognition and Language Education (Borg, 2006) I noted the rapid growth that
had occurred since the mid-1990s in the study of language teacher cognition and that trend …

This paper reports on our inquiry into how language teachers' identities relate to their efforts
to teach intercultural communicative competence. In the study, we collected data through in …

The development of intercultural communicative competence has recently emerged as one
of the major foci in language education. The rise of Chinese as an international language …