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Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond (2025)
Journal Article
Porto, M., Golubeva, I., & Byram, M. (2025). Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond. Social Sciences, 14(3), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci14030135

The purpose of this article is to examine the ethical challenges that arise in the world language classroom and beyond from using intercultural citizenship pedagogy. Intercultural citizenship is, in general, seen as a recent and positive development... Read More about Ethical Challenges in Intercultural Citizenship Education with ‘Difficult Topics’ in the World Language Classroom and Beyond.

Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship (2025)
Journal Article
Byram, M., Porto, M., & Wagner, M. (online). Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship. Language, Culture and Curriculum, https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2025.2462618

In this article, we discuss some ethical issues arising from teaching foreign or world languages for intercultural citizenship. From this perspective, language education engages students in critical investigations of social issues and in the applicat... Read More about Ethical issues in foreign/world language teaching – the example of teaching for intercultural citizenship.

Comparing and Contrasting Approaches to Education for Transition and Transformation (2023)
Journal Article
Herrmann-Israel, A., & Byram, M. (online). Comparing and Contrasting Approaches to Education for Transition and Transformation. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/03057925.2023.2268508

A comparative analysis of two approaches to education in two academic literatures in two languages is the basis for discussion of how education systems should respond to contemporary transitions in the world in an Anthropocene age. The first approach... Read More about Comparing and Contrasting Approaches to Education for Transition and Transformation.

Quality and Equity in Education: A Practical Guide to the Council of Europe Vision of Education for Plurilingual, Intercultural and Democratic Citizenship (2023)
Book
Byram, M., Fleming, M., & Sheils, J. (Eds.). (2023). Quality and Equity in Education: A Practical Guide to the Council of Europe Vision of Education for Plurilingual, Intercultural and Democratic Citizenship. Multilingual Matters

The work of the Council of Europe in plurilingual and intercultural education is highly influential in Europe and beyond and has been so for many years. The Common European Framework of Reference and its Companion Volume, and related instruments, pro... Read More about Quality and Equity in Education: A Practical Guide to the Council of Europe Vision of Education for Plurilingual, Intercultural and Democratic Citizenship.

The political and the ethical in language teaching (2022)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2022). The political and the ethical in language teaching. Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice, 16(3), 394-402. https://doi.org/10.1558/jalpp.21088

Having known Claire Kramsch for many years I find it odd to refer to her as ‘Kramsch’, and since this is an invitation to write a ‘comment’ I would prefer to refer to ‘Claire’; but although this is a personal comment, perhaps that is too informal and... Read More about The political and the ethical in language teaching.

Learning to Belong: School, Language, and Identity in North Schleswig in the 1980s (2022)
Book Chapter
Byram, M. (2022). Learning to Belong: School, Language, and Identity in North Schleswig in the 1980s. In P. Thaler (Ed.), Like Snow in the Sun? (133-154). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110682120-011

In a seminar in 1982 for “leading members” of the German minority in Nordschleswig, one of the statements which “crystallised” was that “the spiritual basis of the German minority is the declaration of allegiance to German-ness” (emphasis added) and,... Read More about Learning to Belong: School, Language, and Identity in North Schleswig in the 1980s.

Locus of enunciation: insights for intercultural language teaching (2022)
Journal Article
Porto, M., & Byram, M. (2022). Locus of enunciation: insights for intercultural language teaching. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 35(4), 404-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2021.2023562

Recent articles on the problems of ‘locus of enunciation’ have focused on research and publication as well as on theoretical development of the concept. It is an issue in teaching and learning too, and this is the focus of this article which argues t... Read More about Locus of enunciation: insights for intercultural language teaching.

Identity matters in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume (2021)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2023). Identity matters in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume. The Language Learning Journal, 51(2), 253-262. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2021.1996622

The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages has been a major influence on language teaching in Europe and beyond and its Companion Volume will probably have the same significance. It is important therefore that education professionals un... Read More about Identity matters in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume.

Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project (2021)
Journal Article
Porto, M., Golubeva, I., & Byram, M. (2023). Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project. Language Teaching Research, 27(2), 276-298. https://doi.org/10.1177/13621688211058245

In this article we argue, in the context of the current dominance of the performative and instrumental drives characterizing the accountable university, that language and intercultural communication education in universities should also be humanistic... Read More about Channelling discomfort through the arts: A Covid-19 case study through an intercultural telecollaboration project.

Stanley Leathes and his influence on ‘The Leathes Report’ (2021)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2021). Stanley Leathes and his influence on ‘The Leathes Report’. Language & History, 64(2), 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597536.2021.1933328

Described as the magna carta of language teaching, the ‘Report of the Committee appointed by the Prime Minister to enquire into the Position of Modern Languages in the Educational System of Great Britain (28 August 1916)’ is known as ‘the Leathes Rep... Read More about Stanley Leathes and his influence on ‘The Leathes Report’.

Teaching Intercultural Citizenship through Intercultural Service Learning in World Language Education (2021)
Journal Article
Barili, A., & Byram, M. (2021). Teaching Intercultural Citizenship through Intercultural Service Learning in World Language Education. Foreign Language Annals, 54(3), 776-799. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12526

Globalization and internationalization have created a need for dialogue among people of different persuasions in our own societies and beyond. Language teachers can meet this challenge through the concepts of intercultural citizenship and intercultur... Read More about Teaching Intercultural Citizenship through Intercultural Service Learning in World Language Education.

Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer (2021)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2023). Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer. Paedagogica Historica, 59(2), 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/00309230.2021.1872659

This article addresses the ways in which education systems responded to the aftermath of World War I with respect to education for nationalism and internationalism. It does so by drawing on theories of internationalism and through an analysis of the... Read More about Nationalism and Internationalism in Education in Europe in the 1920s through the Eyes of an American Observer.

Applied Linguist, Ethnographer, International(ist) Citizen - Perspectives on the Language Learner (2020)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2020). Applied Linguist, Ethnographer, International(ist) Citizen - Perspectives on the Language Learner. Status quaestionis (Roma), 19, 95-108. https://doi.org/10.13133/2239-1983/17141

In this article, I consider three ways of envisioning the language learner, and the disciplines or theories on which they are based. The language learner as ‘applied linguist’ suggests that learners and their teachers draw on linguistic analyses of t... Read More about Applied Linguist, Ethnographer, International(ist) Citizen - Perspectives on the Language Learner.

Politics, origins and futures of the CEFR (2020)
Journal Article
Byram, M. (2022). Politics, origins and futures of the CEFR. The Language Learning Journal, 50(5), 586-599. https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2020.1845392

The CEFR was conceived as part of the Council of Europe’s project ‘Language Learning for European Citizenship’. The social and political context out of which this project grew has often been lost from view. This is perhaps due to the success of the C... Read More about Politics, origins and futures of the CEFR.

Errors by Simpson and Dervin (2019) in their description of the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (2020)
Journal Article
Barrett, M., & Byram, M. (2020). Errors by Simpson and Dervin (2019) in their description of the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture. Intercultural Communication Education, 3(2), 75-95. https://doi.org/10.29140/ice.v3n2.286

In a recent paper, Simpson and Dervin (2019a) offer a radical critique of the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture (RFCDC). However, Simpson and Dervin’s paper contains numerous factual errors, interpretative... Read More about Errors by Simpson and Dervin (2019) in their description of the Council of Europe’s Reference Framework of Competences for Democratic Culture.

Representations of internationalisation at a Portuguese Higher Education Institution: From institutional discourse to stakeholders’ voices (2020)
Journal Article
Lourenço, M., Andrade, A. I., & Byram, M. (2020). Representations of internationalisation at a Portuguese Higher Education Institution: From institutional discourse to stakeholders’ voices. Revista lusófona de educação (Em linha), 47(47), 53-68. https://doi.org/10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle47.04

Internationalisation has become a major concern of higher education institutions around the world, featuring as a goal in their mission statements and agendas. Yet, the ways it is perceived and addressed vary greatly. In some cases, internationalisat... Read More about Representations of internationalisation at a Portuguese Higher Education Institution: From institutional discourse to stakeholders’ voices.