Foreword
Karen Risager
Preface (2020)
Preface (1997)
Introduction
The Tourist and the Sojourner
Teaching and Assessment
Intercultural Communicative Competence
Teaching and Assessing ICC: A Framework
What This Book Is ...
What This Book Is Not ...
1 Defining and Describing Intercultural Communicative Competence
Introduction
Communicating Across Linguistic and Cultural
Boundaries and Frontiers
Communication and Interaction
Teaching Intercultural Communication in Context
Assessment in the Context of Intercultural Communicative
Competence
Conclusion: The Language Learner as 'Ethnographer'
and/or as 'Applied Linguist'
Coda: Intercultural and Pluricultural Competence
2 A Model for Intercultural Communicative Competence
Introduction
Describing Intercultural Communication and the
'Intercultural Speaker'
Attitudes
Knowledge
Skills
Intercultural Communication in Operation
Acquiring Intercultural Communicative Competence in an
Educational Setting
Relating Intercultural Competence to Communication
Intercultural Competence Defined in Terms of Objectives
The Developmental Factor
Questions of Power in Intercultural Communication
Coda: Moral Relativism, Pluralism and Human Rights
3 Objectives for Teaching, Learning and Assessment
Introduction
Formulating Teaching, Learning and Assessment Objectives
Acquiring Intercultural Competence
A Comprehensive Model of Intercultural (Communicative) Competence
Coda: Mediation
4 Curriculum Issues
Introduction
Concepts of Progression
A Threshold of Intercultural Communicative Competence?
Planning a Curriculum for Intercultural Communicative Competence
Two Contrasting Examples: Teaching French in an East
Coast Region of the United States and English in