Rethinking Intercultural Competence

Arnd Witte is Professor of Modern Languages at the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Maynooth University, the National University of Ireland Maynooth. He has published widely in the area of foreign language learning and intercultural communication, with a particular focus on the development of intercultural competence. Theo Harden is Professor Emeritus at University College Dublin and Professor of German at the Departamento de Línguas Estrangeiras e Tradução at the Universidade de Brasília. He has published widely in the area of foreign language teaching and learning and translation studies.

Contents: Arnd Witte/Theo Harden: Intercultural Competence – Introduction – Arnd Witte: The Sentient Body and Intercultural Situational Attentiveness – Rob Philburn: Intercultural Competence as «Construalistic» Expressivity – Linda Huber: Intercultural Communicative Competence in the Language Education Context – a Floating Signifier – Beatriz Hernández- Moreno: Intercultural Competence and Its Assessment: A Critical Contextualisation – Theo Harden: Intercultural Competence: The Windmills of Foreign Language Teaching – Hans- Jürgen Heringer: Hotwords as a Didactic Vehicle to Intercultural Competence? – Margit Krause-Ono/Sylvia Wächter: Ill Weeds Never Die – Marta Giralt, Liam Murray/Silvia Benini: Is IC Missing Some of the Core Elements of Language Education? Towards a Critical, Digital and Agentive Literacy Within Intercultural Communication – Christiane Hohenstein, Liana Konstantinidou/Aleksandra Opacic: Rethinking Intercultural Competence in Foreign and Second Language Classrooms for Adult Migrant Learners – Eva Seidl: The Impact of Study Abroad on Cultural and Democratic Literacy – Elba S. Ramirez: Intercultural Language Teaching in Aotearoa New Zealand: Ten Years of Neglect, Neoliberalism and Missed Opportunities – María Luisa Sierra Huedo/Almudena Nevado Llopis: How Could We Prepare Our Students to Become Interculturally Competent?.