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| LEADERSHIP UPDATES |
| LETTER FROM THE CHAIR |
| Heidi Faust, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA |
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| LETTER FROM THE EDITORS |
| Natalia Balyasnikova, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada & Patriann Smith, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA |
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| ARTICLES |
| INTERCULUTRAL COMMUNICATION FOR EFL LEARNERS: THREE CLASS ACTIVITIES EXPLORING COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE |
| Cheryl Woelk, Language for Peace, Saskatchewan, Canada |
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Explicit instruction of
intercultural communication for ELLs in EFL settings can help build
skills for cultural sensitivity and awareness. These three activities
are part of a unit designed to explore culture and communication with
learners and teach basic intercultural communication skills. Read More |
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| EXAMINATION OF NONNATIVE-ENGLISH-SPEAKING TEACHERS' LEGITIMACY IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION |
| Hao Wang, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA |
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As a constitutive element to U.S. education, many
nonnative-English-speaking teachers (NNESTs) find their identity
marginalized in intercultural teaching contexts. In this article, the
author discusses the construction of their roles and proposes teacher
identity as pedagogy to empower NNESTs in intercultural
communications. Read More |
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| INHERENTLY EXPERT: INCORPORATING STUDENT CULTURE INTO CURRICULUM |
| Kurtis Grothoff & Kurtis Foster, Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri, USA |
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Making the diverse backgrounds found in an ESL classroom into
classroom content and asking students to share expertise while analyzing
that of their peers leads to enhanced critical thinking and interaction
in the target language, and creates a sense of critical cultural
inquiry and shared global community as students become investigators of
the underlying principles at play across multiple cultures. Read More |
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| INTERVIEW WITH DR. RYUKO KUBOTA |
| Natalia Balyasnikova, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
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An internationally recognized expert on the topics of language
ideology, multiculturalism, and race and ethnicity in TESL, Dr. Ryuko
Kubota talks about her background, her experiences and challenges in the
changing field of intercultural rhetoric, and critical approaches to
everyday classroom practice. Read More |
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| ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY |
| COMMUNITY UPDATE |
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| CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR THE ICIS NEWSLETTER: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION, CURRENT ISSUES IN THE FIELD |
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