In an imaginative fantasy world on a magical island, Lossie Leppur and the Quing highlights the value of diversity, communication and cooperation when solving social problems, engendering in its readers a love of nature, colour, animals, diversity and light.

This textbook is based on an academic monograph entitled Intercultural dialogue in practice: Managing value judgment in foreign language education. (Houghton, 2012) that resulted from a PhD thesis supervised by Michael Byram at Durham University. It contains a series of selected extracts relevant to the exploration of intercultural dialogue through children's literature. The extracts are accompanied by a children's story entitled Lossie Leppur and the Quing which was also written by the author to explore issues related to intercultural dialogue, which was published independently in 2015, with...

This textbook guides students through basic steps in conducting research into stereotypes focusing on race and gender, and can also be used a springboard for the development of public speaking skills in the process.

This textbook helps students to explore practical ways of connecting people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds by linking art, intercultural communication and regional design. By studying community development through intercultural dance and food events, students explore meaningful links between language, culture and intergroup dynamics using English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in various multilingual settings. Students are encouraged to participate in intercultural dance and food events, and develop their own.

This intercultural communication textbook develops intercultural communicative competence through genuine value-driven intercultural dialogue. It guides students through the steps of the Intercultural Dialogue Model (Houghton, 2012), which was initially inspired by Byram's (1997) Model of Intercultural Communicative Competence.

This research-oriented intercultural communication textbook is aimed at students interested in exploring links between art, intercultural communication and community development as part of regional design. Through a variety of source materials, it highlights the dynamic relationship between identity and space - both physical and psychological - in intercultural contexts. A special focus is placed on dance and pottery-related activity related to language dynamics. It aims to stimulate interesting new lines of research into intercultural identity and intercultural space through case study...

This textbook explores intercultural dialogue, and the negotiation and mediation of intercultural conflict by focusing on the systematic exploration of differences in values and concepts between people from different cultures. The role of values is also explored in relation to study abroad referring to genuine student accounts of their experiences of studying abroad in different countries and the broader academic literature.