Bernhard Schieber

Intercultural Communicative Competence (Byram)

Knowledge

Byram’s ICC combines language resources with openness, cultural knowledge, interpretation, discovery, interaction, and critical awareness. The intercultural speaker learns across differences and evaluates practices using explicit criteria. Application examines situated performance and reflection while avoiding national stereotypes and recognizing constraints that individual competence cannot remove.

What these mean

Editorial orientation · Family

Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

Editorial orientation · Category

Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics

Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.

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