Intercultural citizenship in the (foreign) language classroom

The purpose of this special issue is to bring the theory of intercultural citizenship education to readers' attention and to offer teachers and researchers working with this or similar concepts the opportunity to make their work known in a context of a coherent presentation of theory and practice. In this introduction, we will explain the rationale and the concepts involved in intercultural citizenship education and present the articles in this special issue which arose from our call for papers.Fil: Porto, Melina. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación. Instituto de Investigaciones en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales (UNLP-CONICET); Argentina.Fil: Houghton, Stephanie Ann. Saga University, Japan.Fil: Byram, Michael. University of Durham, Reino Unido