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We mentioned several times in Chapter 8 that one important purpose of intercultural assessment is to promote reflection and to aid the development of ICIC. This chapter focuses specifically on the development process, and deals with two main contexts: professional contexts and school education contexts.
Education and training in intercultural communication is an approach to changing our ‘natural’ behaviour. […] This attempt at change must be approached with the greatest possible care.
Bennett 1993: 21
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Fowler, S. M. and Blohm, J. M. (2004) An analysis of methods for intercultural training. In D. Landis, J. M. Bennett and M. J. Bennett (eds), Handbook of Intercultural Training. London and Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage, pp. 37–84. An invaluable, state-of-the-art overview of the techniques of intercultural development as practised in the United States and many parts of Europe.
Fowler, S. M. and Mumford, M. G. (eds) (1995) Intercultural Sourcebook: Cross-Cultural Training Methods, Volume 1. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press.
Fowler, S. M. and Mumford, M. G. (eds) (1999) Intercultural Sourcebook: Cross-Cultural Training Methods, Volume 2. Yarmouth: Intercultural Press. These two books give detailed and critical accounts of the methods of intercultural development, often written by the originators of the methods themselves.
Landis, D., Bennett, J. M. and Bennett, M. J. (eds) (2004) Handbook of Intercultural Training. London and Thousands Oaks, CA: Sage. Now in its third edition, this is a comprehensive overview of intercultural development by leading US and a number of European experts, mainly psychologists. The collection of specially written chapters includes a fascinating history of intercultural training as well as accounts of development contexts not dealt with in this chapter.
Sercu, L. et al. (2005) Foreign Language Teachers & Intercultural Communication: An International Investigation, pp. 1–18. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. Very enlightening survey of the state of intercultural competence development in language education in Europe.
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Spencer-Oatey, H., Franklin, P. (2009). Developing Competence in Intercultural Interaction. In: Intercultural Interaction. Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244511_9
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