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In Part 1 of the book we explored the various ways in which intercultural interaction can be conceptualized, including the interrelationship between culture, interaction processes and interaction competencies. In Part 2 of the book we turn to a related issue: how competence in intercultural interaction can be promoted. In this chapter we explore how such competence can be measured and in the next chapter we consider how it can be developed.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King
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Further reading
Byram, M. (1997) Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Useful chapters on the assessment of ICIC in the school education context.
Paige, R. M. (2004) Instrumentation in intercultural training. In D. Landis, J. M. Bennett, and M. J. Bennett (eds), Handbook of Intercultural Training, vol. 3. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage: 85–128. A very comprehensive overview of the state of the art in the United States.
Prechtl, E. and A. Davidson-Lund (2007) Intercultural competence and assessment: perspectives from the INCA project. In H. Kotthoff and H. Spencer-Oatey (eds), Handbooks of Applied Linguistics. Volume 7: Handbook of Intercultural Communication. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 465–90. A useful article about an assessment approach for certification purposes developed in Europe.
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Spencer-Oatey, H., Franklin, P. (2009). Assessing Competence in Intercultural Interaction. In: Intercultural Interaction. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244511_8
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