Table of Contents

European intergration and the European dimension - teachers' views; European intergration - political and educational trends; the cultural dimension in foreign language education; teachers' views on the cultural dimension; stereotypes and prejudices; learning by experience - contacts abroad; new relationships between langauge and culture - the way forward.

About the Author

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus at the University of Durham, UK and Guest Professor at the University of Luxembourg. Karen Risager is Dr.Phil. and Professor in Cultural Encounters at the Department of Culture and Identity, Roskilde University, Denmark. She has conducted interdisciplinary research for thirty years within the fields of language and culture teaching, cultural studies and sociolinguistics, internationalisation and intercultural competence, and the language and cultural learning of adult migrants. She is one of the initiators of an interdisciplinary MasteraEURO(t)s programme in Cultural Encounters, focusing on culture, language, identity and power in a global perspective. Selected publications: Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (Multilingual Matters 1999, with Michael Byram) and Language and Culture: Global Flows and Local Complexity (Multilingual Matters 2006).