Soler Eva Alcón (ed.) Іntercultural Language Use and Language Learning

Dordrecht: Springer, 2006. - 287 p.The main purpose of the present book is to broaden the scope of research on the development of intercultural communicative competence. Bearing this purpose in mind, English learners are considered as intercultural speakers
who share their interest for engaging in real life communication. According to Byram and Fleming (1998), the intercultural speaker is someone with knowledge of one or more cultures and social identities, and who enjoys discovering and maintaining relationships with people from other cultural
backgrounds, although s/he has not been formally trained for that purpose.