Books in the Routledge Studies in Language and Intercultural Communication series

This volume relates epistemological advances in identity and interculturality to research methods.

Studies of intercultural communication in applied linguistics initially focused on miscommunication, mainly between native and non-native speakers of English. But the advent of the twenty-first century has witnessed a revolution in the contexts and contents of intercultural communication; technological advances such as chat rooms, emails, personal weblogs, Facebook, Twitter, mobile text messaging on the one hand, and the accelerated pace of people¿s international mobility on the other have given a new meaning to the term "intercultural communication". This book showcases recent studies in a multitude of contexts to enable a collective effort towards advancements in the area.

This book examines the significance of reflexivity as an integral process, particularly when researching the multifaceted notions of multilingualism and interculturality in education.

This volume provides a state of the art overview of Online Intercultural Exchange (OIE) in university education and demonstrates how educators can use OIE to address current challenges such as internationalisation, virtual mobility and intercultural foreign language education. With qualitative and quantitative findings on the impact of OIE, contributors provide guidance on using OIE at both pedagogical and technological levels, and offer a collection of practitioner-authored and practically-oriented case studies for teachers of foreign languages or other subject areas who wish to engage in developing the digital literacy and intercultural competences of their learners.

This edited research volume explores the development of what can be described as the 'critical turn' in intercultural communication pedagogy, with a particular focus on modern/foreign language education. The main aim is to trace the realisations of this critical turn against a background of unequal power relations, and to illuminate the role that radical culture educators can play in the making of a more democratic and egalitarian social order.

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at `glocal¿ languages, local languages which have been successfully "globalized".

This edited research volume explores the development of what can be described as the 'critical turn' in intercultural communication pedagogy, with a particular focus on modern/foreign language education. The main aim is to trace the realisations of this critical turn against a background of unequal power relations, and to illuminate the role that radical culture educators can play in the making of a more democratic and egalitarian social order.

This book provides a comprehensive critical account of tandem learning, charting it evolution from its origins in European educational settings to modern programs offering new perspectives on the approach's role within higher education.

This collection critically examines tourism as a site of intercultural communication, drawing on the analytical tools afforded by the discipline toward better understanding contemporary tourism discourses and the broader societal structures of power and ideologies in which they are situated.

This collection lends a critical decolonizing lens to intercultural communication research, bringing together perspectives on how forms of education embedded in the arts and humanities can open up intercultural understanding among young people in conditions of conflict and protracted crises.