Staff

Prof Mike Byram

Contact Prof Mike Byram (email at m.s.byram@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Michael Byram is Professor Emeritus since October 2008.
His work in the School comprised initial teacher education and being Director of Research Degrees with supervision of research students. He began his career teaching French and German at secondary school level and in adult education in an English comprehensive community school. After being appointed to a post in teacher education at the University of Durham in 1980, he carried out research into the education of linguistic minorities, foreign language education and student residence abroad.
He supervised doctoral students in intercultural studies, language teaching and comparative education.
He has published many books and articles including, most recently, Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence; Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures (with Karen Risager); From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship; and is the editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning.

 NEW BOOK: The Common European Framework of Reference. The globalisation of language education policy.

http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781847697295.

Completed Supervisions (since 2008)

Managing The Evaluation of Difference in Foreign Language Education : A Complex Case Study in a Tertiary Level Context in Japan

Deaf Education in Early Childhood: Bilingual Approaches in Mainland China
from 1996-2004

Chinese Postgraduate Students in a British University: Their Learning Experiences and Learning Beliefs

Research Groups

• Individuals and Contexts in Education

Research Interests

• Bilingual education
• Comparative education
• Foreign language teaching

Publications

Journal papers: academic

• Byram, M.S. (2012). Language awareness and (critical) cultural awareness - relationships, comparisons and contrasts. Language Awareness 21(1-2): 5-13.
• Byram, M. & Wang, L. (2011). But when you are doing your exams it is the same as in China - Chinese students adjusting to western approaches to teaching and learning. Cambridge Journal of Education 41(4): 407-424.
• Yamada, E. & Byram, M. (2011). Criticality and the purposes of teaching foreign languages in Higher Education. Intercultural Communication Research 2: 171-188.
• Byram, M. (2011). From foreign language education to education for intercultural citizenship. Intercultural Communication Review 9: 17-36.
• Byram, M. (2011). Intercultural citizenship from an internationalist perspective. Journal of the NUS Teaching Academy 1(1): 10-20.
• Byram, M. (2011). Intercultural citizenship: foreign language teaching as an extension of national education. In Chinese, translated by Han Hui Hellen. Academic Research 11: 128-135.
• Byram, M.S. (2011). Teaching French and intercultural (communicative) competence. Francophonie 44(Autumn): 14-19.
• Byram, M. (2011). The Common (European) CEFR of Reference - teaching foreign languages, mediation and intercultural competence. Annual Review of English Learning and Teaching 16.
• Byram, M. (2010). Identitast formalunk, vagy kompetenciakat fejlesztunk a tobbkulturaju allampolgarok kineveleseben? Iskolakultura 4: 43-58.
• Byram, M. (2010). Linguistic and Cultural Education for Bildung and Citizenship. The Modern Language Journal 94(2): 317-321.
• Byram, M. (2008). Plurilingvalnost u Evropi i njene implikacije. Revija za obrazovanja i kultura 8-9.
• De Korne, H., Byram, M. & Fleming, M. (2007). Familiarising the Stranger: Immigrant Perceptions of Cross-cultural interaction and Bicultural Identity. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 28(4): 290-307.
• Yuen, T. & Byram, M. (2007). National identity, patriotism and studying politics in schools: a case study in Hong Kong. Compare 37(1): 23-36.
• Byram, M.S. (2007). Thoughts on the Languages Review. Language Learning Journal 35(2): 297-299.
• Byram, M. & Feng, A. (2004). Culture and language learning: teaching research and scholarship. Language Teaching 37(3): 149-168.
• Lai, P-S. & Byram, M. (2003). The Politics of Bilingualism: a reproduction analysis of the policy of mother tongue education in Hong Kong after 1997. Compare: A journal of comparative education 33(3): 315-334.
• Alred, G. & Byram, M. (2002). Becoming an Intercultural Mediator: A Longitudinal Study of Residence Abroad. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 23(5): 339-352.

Journal papers: professional

• Byram, M.S. (2007). How do I teach the intercultural dimension if I have never left my country? Culture and Literature Special Edition: 8-11.

Books: authored

• Lai, P.S. & Byram, M.S. (2012). Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship: Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Byram, M.S. (2008). From Foreign Language Education to Education for Intercultural Citizenship. Essays and Reflection. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• Roberts, C., Byram, M., Barro, A., Jordan, S. & Street, B. (2001). Language Learners as Ethnographers. Buffalo, N.Y.: Multilingual Matters.
• M.S.Byram & K. Risager (1999). Language Teachers, Politics and Cultures. Multilingual Matters Ltd.
• M.S. Byram (1997). Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence. Multilingual Matters Ltd.

Books: edited

• Byram, M.S. & Hu, A. (2012). Routledge Encyclopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. Routledge: London.
• Byram, M.S. & Parmenter, L. (2012). The Common European Framework of Reference: The Globalisation of Language Education Policy. Multilingual Matters.
• Byram, M.S. & Dervin, F. (2008). Echanges et Mobilités Académiques. Quel bilan?.
• Byram, M.S. & Phipps, A. (2007). Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education. Languages for Intercultural Communication and Education Book Series. Multilingual Matters.
• G. Alred, M. Byram & M. Fleming (2003). Intercultural experience and education. Languages for intercultural communication and education; 2; Buffalo [N.Y.].
• M. Byram, A. Nichols & D. Stevens (2001). Developing intercultural competence in practice. NetLibrary, Inc.
• M.S. Byram (2000). Routledge Encylopedia of Language Teaching and Learning. London: Routledge.
• M. Fleming & M. Byram (1998). Language Learning in Intercultural Perspective: Approaches through Drama and Ethnography. Cambridge University Press.

Books: sections

• Byram, M.S. (2012). Characteristics and competences of the plurilingual and intercultural citizen. In Mehrsprachigkeit. Bildung - Kommunikation - Standards. Facke, C., Martinez, H. & Meissner, F-J. Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Verlag. 15-25.
• Byram, M. (2012). Reflecting on teaching 'culture' in foreign language education. In Insights into the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages (EPOSTL). Newby, D. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• Byram, M.S. (2011). A research agenda for 'intercultural competence'. In Intercultural competence. Concepts, challenges and evaluations. Witte, A. & Harden, T. Oxford: Peter Lang. 19-36.
• Byram, M. (2011). Conceptualizing intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship. In The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Jackson, J. Routledge: London. 85-97.
• Byram, M.S. (2011). Intercultural citizenship - an education perspective. In Nationalism, Ethnicity, Citizenship. Barrett, M., Flood, C. & Eade, J. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 163-180.
• Byram, M.S. (2011). La competence interculturelle. In guide pur la recherche en didactique des langues et des cultures. Blanchet, P. & Chardent, P. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines. 253-260.
• Byram, M. (2011). Language teaching (and learning) in a European perspective. In Foreign language teaching - history, theory, methods. Appel, J., Doff, S., Rymarczyk, J. & Thaler, E. Langenscheidt. 11-18.
• Byram, M.S. (2011). Recherche et prise de position. In Guide pur la recherche en didactique des langues et des cultures. Blanchet, P. & chardent, P. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines. 41-44.
• Byram, M. & Parmenter, L. (2010). An overview of the international influences oon the CEFR. In Statements in language education in Japan and beyond - Applications of the CEFR. Schmidt, M.G., Naganuma, N., O'Dwyer, F., Imig, A. & Sakai, K. Tokyo: Asahi Press.
• Byram, M., Lapkin, S., LoBianco, J., Met, M. & Scott, A. (2010). Fremds[prachen] didaktik in englischsprachigen Landern. In Handbuch Fremdsprachendidaktik. Hallet, W. & Konigs, F.G. Seelze-Velber, Germany: Klett/Kallmeyer.
• Byram, M. (2010). Intercomprehension; intercultural competence and foreign language teaching. In Lernerautonouire durch Interkomprehension. Doye, P. & Meissner, F-J. Tubingen: Narr Verlag.
• Byram, M. & Guilherme, M. (2010). Intercultural education and intercultural communication: tracing the relationship. In Becoming intercultural: inside and outside the classroom. Tsai, Y. & Houghton, S. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2-22.
• Byram, M.S. (2008). Education for intercultural citizenship: language teaching and education for citizenship - in Europe and beyond. In Visions of Language in Education. Visionen der Bildung durch Sprachen. Doff, S., Hullen, W. & Klippel, F. (eds) Berlin: Langenscheidt. 65-75.
• Byram, M.S. (2008). Researching residence and study abroad. In Auslandsaufenthalte in Schule und Studium. Bestanbdsaufnahme aus Forschung und Praxis. Ehrenreich, S., Woodman, G. & Perrefort, M. Munster: Waxman. 19-28.
• Byram, M.S. (2007). Developing Language Education Policy in Europe - and Searching for Theory. In Transcending Boundaries: Essays in honor of Gisela Hermann-Brennecke. Kindermann, W. Institut fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik Seminar fur Angewandte Amerikanistik & Anglistik (AAA). 13: 13-28.
• Byram, M. (2007). Exploring languages, identities and education in a European Perspective. In Jezik: identiteti. Granic, J. Zagreb/Split: HDPL103-112. 103-112.

Conference papers

• Byram, M. (2010), Global communities, cosmopolitan and intercultural citizenship, International Association for Intercultural Studies Conference. Guangzhou, China.
• Byram, M. (2006), Languages and Identities, Intergovernmental Conference. Languages of Schooling: towards a Framework for Europe. Strasbourg, Council of Europe, Strasbourg.

Reports: official

• M.S.Byram & J-C. Beacco (2003). Guide for the Development of Language Education Policies in Europe. Strasbourg, Council of Europe.

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