Practices in Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

About

Michael Joseph Ennis PhD is the Didactic and Scientific Coordinator for the English Language at the Language Centre at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano Italy where he teaches a variety of English language courses including intensive and extensive General English courses Business English courses and examination preparation courses. He has taught English and German language and culture at universities in the USA Germany and Italy and he has published and given numerous conference presentations and teacher training workshops on his interests in cultural studies English for Specific Purposes motivation and intercultural language teaching among other topics.Catherine Elizabeth Riley MA teaches at the University of Trento Postgraduate School of International Studies Italy where she is Head of Foreign Languages. She has taken part in several EU projects the latest of which was Intl-Uni: The Challenges of the Multilingual Multicultural Learning Space in the International University. A member of the Language Centre Board she was responsible for all English language teaching at the University of Trento for 10 years until June 2015 when she was appointed a member of the University of Trento Quality Assurance and Enhancement Committee where she is responsible in particular for teaching and learning training projects across the university. She is the author of About English: An Introduction to English Language (2004) now in its 5th reprint.