The Workshop
Intercultural competence is the ability to communicate effectively and appropriately with people of other cultures. Using Byram’s Five Savoirs, we will focus on ways to re-examine your curriculum with a lens of interculturality. In this hands-on session, participants will look at their existing lessons and retool them to reflect investigations of products and practices, understanding of cultural perspectives, and participation in cultural interaction. We will also explore the NCSSFL Interculturality Can-Do Statements and adapt them to participants’ learning environments, whether they are at the elementary, middle, high school, or post-secondary levels.
Nathan Lutz 
ACTFL Global Competence Position Statement
Australian Government Report on Intercultural Language Learning (2003)
Byram, M., Perugini, D., Wagner, M. (2013, May). Developing Intercultural Citizenship in the Elementary School Spanish Classroom. Learning Languages.
Moeller, Aleidine J. and Sarah R. Faltin Osborn. (2014). A Pragmatist Perspective on Building Intercultural Communicative Competency: From Theory to Classroom Practice. Foreign Language Annals. 47 (4).669-683.
NCSSFL Interculturality Self-Assessment Statements by Proficiency Level
NCSSFL Interculturality Self-Assessment Statements by Modes of Communication
NNELL’s Learning Languages. Issue Focus: Culture. Spring 2010
NNELL’s Learning Languages. Issue Focus: Building Intercultural Competence through Language Learning. Spring 2013.
NNELL’s Learning Languages. Issue Focus: Teaching for Global Competence. Fall 2014.
Van Houten, Couet, and Fulkerson. “From Fact to Function: How Interculturality Is Changing Our View of Culture” (2014)
Unit Plan Template