Reading material

A series of resources that the student teacher must study in this session and a series of additional resources for further study.

Compulsory reading list

  1. Alpetkin, C. (2002) Towards intercultural communicative competence. ELT Journal 56/7: 57-64
  2.  Byram, M. 1997. Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
  3. Byram M. et al. (2009), Autobiography of intercultural encounters, Council of Europe Publishing Strasbourg, available at www.coe.int/t/dg4/autobiography/ 
  4. Developing and assessing intercultural communicative competence, A guide for language teachers and teacher educators (2007) Edited by Ildikó Lázár, Martina Huber-Kriegler, Denise Lussier, Gabriela S. Matei and Christiane Peck. Council of Europe: ECML publications
  5. European Language Portfolio https://www.coe.int/en/web/portfolio

List for further reading

  1. Nektaria Palaiologou & Daniel Faas (2012): How ‘intercultural’ is education in Greece? Insights from policymakers and educators, Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 42:4, 563-584
  2. Moeller, Aleidine Kramer and Nugent, Kristen, "Building intercultural competence in the language classroom" (2014). Faculty Publications: Department of Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education. 161.
  3. Baker, W. (2012) From cultural awareness to intercultural awareness. ELT Journal 66/1:62-70
  4. Huber-Kriegler, M., Lázár, I. and Strange J. (2003) Mirrors and Windows. An Intercultural Communication textbook. ECML: Council of Europe publishing