Elba Ramirez

The dynamics within and between language learning and teaching, language teacher education, and intercultural communicative language teaching have always fascinated me. My doctoral thesis explored language teachers’ conceptualisations and practices of intercultural communicative language teaching (iCLT). Findings demonstrated teachers had an implicit potential for intercultural teaching and that targeted intercultural professional development appeared to be the best strategy to unlock this potential. I am now branching out into coloniality and decolonising (inter)cultural studies.