The International Centre for Intercultural Studies (ICIS) at IoE UCL is delighted to confirm that our second public event this term will be an in-conversation session between Prof Carsten Roever from University of Melbourne in Australia and Dr David Wei Dai from University College London in the UK.  


Please join us at 20 Bedford Way on Tuesday, December 5th ·11:30 – 12:30pm (GMT). You can click the Eventbrite link below to reserve your spot. You will also find the room number and teams link on the Eventbrite page.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/interactional-competence-in-intercultural-communication-tickets-757590011117?aff=oddtdtcreator 


Very best wishes,
David Wei Dai & Emma Brooks
ICIS UCL Seminar Series Coordinators 


Interactional Competence in Intercultural Communication: A Conversation between Carsten Roever and David Wei Dai 

In this conversation between Prof Carsten Roever and Dr David Wei Dai, we will explore the intersection of interactional competence (IC) and intercultural communication. Interactional competence, understood as language users’ ability to communicate in extended, co-constructed discourse, is rapidly gaining prominence in second language acquisition and assessment research. However, IC has not so far been related to intercultural communication even though the question of how interactants configure their interactional resources to co-construct discourse in diverse cultural settings is a highly relevant question to both IC and intercultural communication research. We will discuss some of the challenges in relating IC to intercultural communication, and how such work can benefit research and practice in both areas. 

Guest speaker biography  

Carsten Roever is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. He was trained as a secondary teacher for English and Psychology at Gerhard Mercator University in Duisburg, Germany, before completing a PhD in Second Language Acquisition at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa in 2001. He then worked in assessment research at the Educational Testing Service in Princeton before he joined the School of Languages and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne in 2002. His research interests are L2 interactional competence, language testing and general second language acquisition. His most recent book is “Teaching and testing second language pragmatics and interaction: a practical guide” (2022, Routledge). https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/9195-carsten-roever 

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