(Critical) Global and Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education

This bibliography will be updated on an ongoing basis as relevant additional publications are located and new ones are released.

(Critical) Global Citizenship in Language Education

Grat-Smith, D., King, J., & Nykvist, S. (2023). Teaching global competence, creating global citizens: Critical citizenship education in higher education. In J. A. Al-Obaidi, J. A. Boivin, & M. N. Rao (Eds.), The  Role of Educators as Agents and Conveyors for Positive Change in Global Education (pp.25-60). IGI

Hartman, E., Reynolds, N., P., & Ferrarini, C., & Messmore, N., Sabea, E., Al-Ebrahim, & B., Brown, J., M. (2020). Coloniality-decoloniality and critical global citizenship: identity, belonging, and education abroad. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 32(1), 33-59. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v32i1.433

Hayes, M. (2019). Global Citizenship. Macmillan Education ELT. [video]

Kim, Y., & Kwon, J. (2023). Critical global citizenship education for transnational youth: Advancing justice and activism and promoting reciprocal learning. Teaching and Teacher Education, 132, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104269

King de Ramirez, C. (2021). Global citizenship education through collaborative online international learning in the borderlands: a case of the Arizona–Sonora megaregion. Journal of Studies in International Education, 25(1), 83-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315319888886

Kramsch, C. (2020). Educating the global citizen or the global consumer? Language Teaching, 53(4), 462-476. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444819000363


Lee, E. H. (2024). Critical global citizenship education: unpacking representations of racialization in Korean English textbooks. English Teaching, 79(2), 57-87. https://doi.org/10.15858/engtea.79.2.202406.57

Lütge, C. (2017). Global citizenship education in English language teaching: a German perspective. Language Teacher Education, 4(2), 17-28.

Lütge, C., Merse, T., & Rauschert, P. (Eds.). (2022). Global Citizenship in Foreign Language Education: Concepts, Practices, Connections (1st ed.). Abingdon, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003183839

Martin, T., J., Esteve-Faubel, M., & Esteve-Faubel, R.,P., (2021) Developing intercultural citizenship competences in higher education by using a literary excerpt in an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context, Intercultural Education, 32(6), 649-666. https://doi.org/10.1080/14675986.2021.1985804

Mastellotto, L. (2023). Global Citizenship Education with Picture Books in English Language Learning. ZeitSchrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht-MehSprachen Lernen und Lehren, 28, 173-209. https://zif.tujournals.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/article/id/3613/#B84 

O'Dowd, R. (2020). A transnational model of virtual exchange for global citizenship education. Language Teaching, 53(4), 477-490. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261444819000077

Orsini-Jones, M., & Lee, F. (2018). Intercultural Communicative Competence for Global Citizenship: Identifying Cyberpragmatic Rules of Engagement in Telecollaboration. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58103-7

Pais, A & Costa, M. (2020) An ideology critique of global citizenship education, Critical Studies in Education, 61(1), 1-16, https://doi.org/10.1080/17508487.2017.1318772

Porto, M., & Zambylas, M. (2020). Language education and global citizenship: Decolonial and posthuman perspectives through pedagogies of discomfort. In Jackson, J (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Language and Intercultural Communication. Routledge.

Ramey, L., Scott, V., & Montchal, M. (2018). Dispelling binaries and fostering global citizenship: Changing conceptions in the undergraduate French major at Vanderbilt University. ADFL. 45(1), 97-108. https://doi.org/10.1632/adfl.45.1.97


Römhild, R., Marxl, A., Matz, F. & Siepmann, P. (2023). Rethinking Cultural Learning. Cosmopolitan Perspectives on Language Education. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier

Santamaría-Cárdaba, N., Gajardo, K., Iglesias, J. & Ortega-Quevedo, V. (2024). Global education and critical thinking: A necessary symbiosis to educate for critical global citizenship. Open Education Studies, 6(1), 20240010. https://doi.org/10.1515/edu-2024-0010

Torres, C.A., & Bosio, E. (2020). Global citizenship education at the crossroads: Globalization, global commons, common good, and critical consciousness. Prospects 48, 99–113 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11125-019-09458-w

Yu B, Guo WY, Fu H. (2024). Sustainability in English language teaching: Strategies for empowering students to achieve the sustainable development goals. Sustainability, 16(8):3325. https://doi.org/10.3390/su16083325 

Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education

Back, M., & Wagner, M. (2019). Languages for all: World languages for meaning-making and intercultural citizenship. In Dupuy, B. & Michelson K. (eds.) Pathways to Paradigm Change: Critical Examinations of Prevailing Discourses and Ideologies in Second Language Education, (pp.176-198) . Heinle Cengage. https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/098a0026-26ff-4ecf-9a2b-e204af7c50a3/content 

Barili, A. & Byram, M. (2021), “Teaching intercultural citizenship through intercultural service learning in world language education”, Foreign language annals, Vol. 54 No. 3, pp.776–799. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12526

Barrett, M., & Golubeva, I. (2022 ). From intercultural communicative competence to intercultural citizenship: Preparing young people for citizenship in a culturally diverse democratic world. In T. McConachy, I. Golubeva & M. Wagner (eds.), Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices, (pp. 60-83). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613-011

Byram, M., Golubeva, I., Hui, H., & Wagner, M. (eds.). (2016). From principles to practice in education for intercultural citizenship (Vol. 30). Multilingual Matters. https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/From-Principles-to-Practice-in-Education-for-Intercultural-Citizenship/?k=9781783096541 

Byram, M., & Wagner, M. (2018). Making a difference: Language teaching for intercultural and international dialogue. Foreign Language Annals, 51(1), 140-151. https://doi.org/10.1111/flan.12319

Byram, M., & Golubeva, I. (2020). Conceptualising intercultural (communicative) competence and intercultural citizenship. In J. Jackson (ed.) The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication (2nd edition) (pp. 70-85). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036210

I. De Costa, P. (2022). Identity work and the symbolic power of language in the ELT classroom: advancing the intercultural citizenship and ELF agenda. Journal of English as a Lingua Franca, 11(1), 117-124. https://doi.org/10.1515/jelf-2022-2073

Guilherme, M. (2022). From critical cultural awareness to intercultural responsibility: Language, culture and citizenship.  In T. McConachy, I. Golubeva & M. Wagner (eds.), Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices, (pp. 101-117). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613-013

Huh, S., & Suh, Y.-M. (2018). Preparing elementary readers to be critical intercultural citizens through literacy education. Language Teaching Research, 22(5), 532–551. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362168817718575

Kong, K., & Spenader, A. (2023). Intercultural citizenship in language education: Teaching and learning through social action. Multilingual Matters. https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/Intercultural-Citizenship-in-Language-Education/?k=9781800415751 

Porto, M. (2019).  Long-term impact of four intercultural citizenship projects in the higher education foreign language classroom, The Language Learning Journal, 49(6), 648-667. https: doi.org 10.1080/09571736.2019.1656279

Porto, M., Houghton, S. A., & Byram, M. (2018). Intercultural citizenship in the (foreign) language classroom. Language Teaching Research, 22(5), 484-498 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1362168817718580

Porto, M., & Di Bin, V. (2022). When the axiom of supranational communication in intercultural citizenship theory is not met: Enriching theory and pedagogy. In T. McConachy, I. Golubeva & M. Wagner (Ed.), Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices (pp. 285-310). Multilingual Matters. https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613-023

Sorells, K. (2020). Social justice, diversity, and intercultural–global citizenship education in the global context. In J. Jackson (ed.) The Routledge handbook of language and intercultural communication (2nd edition) (pp. 376-394). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003036210

Wagner, M. & Valencia, J. (2022). Developing intercultural citizenship and intellectual humility in high school German.  In T. McConachy, I. Golubeva & M. Wagner (Ed.), Intercultural Learning in Language Education and Beyond: Evolving Concepts, Perspectives and Practices, (pp. 268-284).  https://doi.org/10.21832/9781800412613-022