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51
Citations
16112
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2522
National Ranking
435

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Michael Byram is affiliated with Durham University in the United Kingdom. Their scholarly work spans several domains within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with particular prominence in education, literature and literary theory, language and linguistics, linguistics and language, as well as sociology and political science.

Their research centers on topics such as second language learning and teaching, global education and multiculturalism, multilingual education and policy, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, educator training and historical pedagogy, religious education and schools, and international student and expatriate challenges.

Byram's recent publications include the following papers:

  • Ethical Issues in Teaching for Intercultural Citizenship in World/Foreign Language Education, 2020, TESOL Quarterly
  • Teaching intercultural citizenship through intercultural service learning in world language education, 2021, Foreign Language Annals
  • Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project, 2021, Language Teaching Research
  • Locus of enunciation: insights for intercultural language teaching, 2022, Language Culture and Curriculum
  • Beyond Teaching Languages for Communication-Humanistic Perspectives and Practices, 2023, Languages

Frequent co-authors in Michael Byram's body of work include:

  • Joseph Sheils
  • Melina Porto
  • Anthony J. Liddicoat
  • Mike Fleming
  • Manuela Wagner

The main venues where Byram's work is published are:

  • Language Culture and Curriculum
  • Language Learning Journal
  • TESOL Quarterly
  • Foreign Language Annals
  • Language Teaching Research

Byram has contributed to book publications primarily through Multilingual Matters eBooks including:

  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence (2020)
  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence (2021)
  • Quality and Equity in Education (2023)

Byram is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence

    Michael Byram

  • Developing Intercultural Competence in Practice

    Michael Byram;Adam Nichols;David Stevens

  • From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship : essays and reflections

    Michael Byram

  • Developing intercultural competence through education

    Michael Byram;Martyn Barrett;Ildikó Lázár;Pascale Mompoint‑Gaillard

  • Developing the Intercultural Dimension in Language Teaching: a practical introduction for teachers

    Michael Byram;Bella Gribkova;Hugh Starkey

  • Cultural studies in foreign language education

    Michael Byram

  • Making a difference: Language teaching for intercultural and international dialogue

    Michael Byram;Manuela Wagner

  • Teaching and Learning Language and Culture

    Andrew Suozzo;Michael Byram;Carol Morgan

  • Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective: Approaches Through Drama and Ethnography

    Michael S Byram;Michael Fleming

  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning

    Michael Byram

  • Intercultural experience and education

    Geof Alred;Michael Byram;Michael Fleming

  • Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship

    Michael Byram

  • Language Learners as Ethnographers

    Celia Roberts;M Byram;A Barro;S Jordan

  • Language awareness and (critical) cultural awareness – relationships, comparisons and contrasts

    Michael Byram

  • Language teachers, politics, and cultures

    Michael Byram;Karen Risager

  • From Principles to Practice in Education for Intercultural Citizenship.

    Michael Byram;Irina Golubeva;Han Hui;Manuela Wagner

  • The common European framework of reference: The globalisation of language education policy

    Michael Byram;Lynne Parmenter

  • Intercultural Competence in Foreign Languages : The Intercultural Speaker and the Pedagogy of Foreign Language Education

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  • Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters: Context, Concepts and Theories.

    M Byram;Barrett;J Ipgrave;R Jackson

  • Culture and language learning: teaching, research and scholarship

    Michael Byram;Anwei Feng

  • Becoming an Intercultural Mediator: A Longitudinal Study of Residence Abroad

    Geof Alred;Mike Byram

  • From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship

    Michael Byram

Frequent Co-Authors

Martyn Barrett
Martyn Barrett University of Surrey
Brian Street
Brian Street King's College London

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