In episode 27, Stacey talks with Manuela Wagner all about her new book, Teaching Intercultural Communicative Competence Across the Age Range: From Theory to Practice (Multilingual Matters, 2017) co-edited with Michael Byram and Dorie Conlon Perugini. Manuela describes how this collaborative, practice-oriented work came to be and how it might be useful for teachers.

Be sure to listen all the way to the end to hear about how you can be one of three We Teach Languages listeners to win a free copy of this book AND appear on a future episode of the podcast!

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Show Notes

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You can find Manuela Wagner online…

University of Connecticut faculty page

And here are some resources we discussed on this episode:

…Rita Oleksak: http://www.glastonburyforeignlanguage.org/
…Kris Gutiérrez: https://gse.berkeley.edu/people/kris-guti%C3%A9rrez

…Two short articles which are introductions to Manuela’s work: http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21228 and http://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/21294

…An article in a special edition of SCOLT:  http://www.scolt.org/images/PDFs/dimension/2016_Dimension_Final.pdf

…The book Stacey pledged to read at Manuela’s suggestion:
M. Byram, I. Golubeva, H. Han, & M. Wagner (Eds). From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship. Multilingual Matters, 2016.   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783096541.
BLOG: https://channelviewpublications.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/from-principles-to-practice-in-education-for-intercultural-citizenship/

…An article in the NNELL journal Learning Language with Mike and Dorie : https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1091126

 

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