DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL LANGUAGE MATERIALS.

Educators are increasingly concerned with preparing their students for life in today’s globalised world, aware that language learning alone is not suf‐ ficient for intercultural understanding. This book offers pathways to creat‐ ing learning materials which nurture intercultural competence; openness to other cultures underpinned by insight into one’s own. Like all the books in this series, it moves from research to practice. It unpicks the intricate concepts of culture and the intercultural and uses them as the basis for its ‘framework for developing intercultural learning materials’, along with the theory of Complex Dynamic Systems – which accounts for that un‐ predictable transformation that we know as ‘learning’. This framework is implemented in the second part of the book to devise and offer a diverse range of intercultural learning activities. Along with activities for teachers to familiarise themselves with the concept, and ideas for developing their own materials, comes the centrepiece, a broad set of intercultural activities for classroom use. The logical next step, how to integrate intercultural objec‐ tives into the curriculum, is explored in Part III, and the book concludes with directions for researching interculturality in the classroom. Developing Intercultural Language Materials puts intercultural competence at the forefront of the learning agenda. It unpicks its underlying theory and provides a framework and practical methodologies for practitioners, providing a toolkit for them to create their own learning materials and design their own classroom activities to nurture intercultural competence.This innovative book showcases some of the new ways language teachers in practice successfully integrate this essential skill into their curricula. Directions for further research, pulling out recurring threads in this book, such as critical pedagogy and cultural sensibility, offer opportunities for professional development.This research‐grounded and action‐oriented text is essential reading for language and cultural studies practitioners who want to help their students thrive in today's multicultural world.