Designing Programs for Developing Intercultural Language Learning

This chapter provides the first part of the longitudinal case study that forms the main body of the book. The rationale for selecting self-study and the design of the case study including the context and participants are outlined. The discussion traces the planning process from the beginning of profiling the learners, through to conceptualizing and designing the program within a developmental perspective. Particular emphasis is given to concept-based programming and notions of scope and sequence that shape the program and how it attends to development.