Intercultural Competence: Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations

Contents: Arnd Witte/Theo Harden: Introduction – Michael Byram: A Research Agenda for ‘Intercultural Competence’ – Darla K. Deardorff: Intercultural Competence in Foreign Language Classrooms: A Framework and Implications for Educators – Werner Müller-Pelzer: Intercultural Competence: A Phenomenological Approach – Theo Harden: The Perception of Competence: A History of a Peculiar Development of Concepts – Arnd Witte: On the Teachability and Learnability of Intercultural Competence: Developing Facets of the ‘Inter’ – Gillian Peiser: Does the Revised English MFL Curriculum Give Us Reasons to be Optimistic about Fostering Intercultural Understanding Amongst Key Stage 3 Language Learners? – Clarisse Costa Afonso: Intercultural Competence: A Major Issue in Foreign Language Teacher Training? – Claudia Borghetti: How to Teach It? Proposal for a Methodological Model of Intercultural Competence – Mary Georgiou: Can One Swallow Make the Summer? Teaching Intercultural Competence in an English Writing Course – Undine S. Weber/Rebecca Domingo: Adding Another Colour to the Rainbow: An Attempt at Imparting German Cultural Competence in a South African University Context – Heidi Zojer: Teaching ‘Intercultural Competence’ to ‘Generation X’ – Annelies Roskvist/Deborah Corder/Sharon Harvey/Karen Stacey: Developing Language Teacher Capability Through Immersion Programmes and the Impact on Student Language Learning, Cultural Knowledge and Intercultural Competence – Joke Simons/Yunsy Krols: Measuring Intercultural Competence – Heather Richards/Clare Conway/Annelies Roskvist/Sharon Harvey: A Framework for Analysing Observation Data: Language Teacher Provision of Opportunities for Learners to Develop Intercultural Competence – Kristin Brogan/Muiris Ó Laoire: Intercultural Learning in the Study Abroad Context – Sabrina Mallon-Gerland: An ILP Investigation of Disagreement Politeness Strategies Performed by German Working Professionals (GWP) – Lisa Stiefel: Learner Identity Construction, Intercultural Competence and Study Abroad – Théophile Ambadiang/Isabel García Parejo: Interculturality, Linguistic Culture and Alterity: A Further Look into Intercultural Competence – Áine Furlong/Fionnuala Kennedy: Towards the Development of Awareness in Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Tandem Exchange Experience – Thomas Johnen: What Can Cross-Cultural Conversation Transcript Analysis Contribute to the Development of Intercultural Competence? – Margit Krause-Ono/Sylvia Wächter: Culture? Communication? The Intercultural? A Comparative Study of Basic Concepts in ICC Education in Germany, Japan and the US – Marie Gervais: ‘Eat ye, O people’: The Role of Food, Religion and Hospitality in Intercultural Relations – Helen O’Sullivan/Gillian S. Martin/Breffni O’Rourke: The Irish are Too Polite: Analysing Stereotype and Identity Dynamics in Student WebChat – Rob Philburn: Aspects of English and German Sociable Selfhood – Marketa Goetz-Stankiewicz: Intercultural Competence: A Mirror for Literature? Some Thoughts on Václav Havel’s Play Unveiling/Vernissage in Two Guises – Sieglinde Grimm: Empathy and Recognition: Two Concepts of Intercultural Learning in Literature Teaching with Rafik Schami’s Fable The Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing – Ana Gonçalves Matos: Current Readers and Intercultural Learning.