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Michael Byram

Emeritus Professor


Affiliations
Affiliation
Emeritus Professor in the School of Education

Research interests

  • foreign language teaching
  • intercultural communication
  • doctoral education

Esteem Indicators

  • 2025: Academic Intercultural (Communicative) Competence for Arqus network of universities Maynooth University, Ireland:
  • 2025: Webinar on ‘Critical Cultural Awareness’ M'sila University of Mohammed Boudiaf, Algeria:
  • 2025: Webinar - ‘The Changing Purposes of Language Teaching – from instrumentalism to humanistic education.’ Teheran University of Medical Sciences Linguistics:
  • 2025: “The experience of studying for a phd in another language and culture  – an international comparative study” International ANIME Network – Academic Network on Inclusiveness, Multilingualism and Excellence:
  • 2025: « International comparative study of Doctoral processes and standards » at the Association Internationale de Recherche en Management Public University of Versailles, St-Quentin en Yvelines / Paris-Saclay.:
  • 2025: ‘The ethics of teaching and evaluating values in foreign language education’ University of Lujan, Argentina:
  • 2025: “Innovative Approaches to Intercultural Language Education”, Bangkok, Thailand:
  • 2024: Guest public lecture “Sprachunterricht im Wandel. From instrumentalism to humanistic education”. Augsburg Technical University of Applied Sciences, 11 April 2024.:
  • 2024: “The changing purposes of language teaching”, Universidad del Quindio, Colombia:
  • 2024: ‘Critical Cultural Awareness in Language Teaching National Taiwan Ocean University:
  • 2023: Plenary lecture online: ‘Interculturality and education: implications for curriculum, identity, training and instruction’ at The Hybrid International Conference on TECOEDU , University of Freres Mentouri Constantine, Algeria. 14/15 March 2023:
  • 2023: Transform 4 Europe exchange professor University of Saarland, Germany, 24 April-16 May 2023:
  • 2023: - Plenary lecture “From Instrumentalism to Humanistic Education. The changing purposes of language teaching” at Thammasat University international conference Diversities and Voices in Language Education and Thai Studies, Bangkok 12-13 September 2023.:
  • 2023: Chercheur invité at Chaire Interculturalités, Université de Haute Alsace, Mulhouse France:
  • 2023: Academic advisor to College of International Culture, Education and Foreign Affairs, Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Taiwan.:
  • 2022: -Plenary lecture ‘Should we teach values in intercultural language teaching’ at conference at University of Bremen on “Making plurilingual/pluricultural education accessible: international perspectives” organised by teacup-project.eu 14 September 2022.:
  • 2022: Bualuang ASEAN Chair Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand:
  • 2022: Plenary lecture on ‘Teachers’ responsibilities in intercultural citizenship education’ at a conference ‘Intercultural Citizenship Education with Picturebooks in Early Language Learning’, at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, 1 July 2022.:
  • 2020: Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria Guest Research Professor:
  • 2002: Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences (UK) (FAcSS):
  • 1995: Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques (France):

Publications

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