ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the key question of how to facilitate intercultural group dynamics, specifically through face-to-face interaction, in order to create meaningful interactions between culturally and linguistically diverse students, and to enhance intercultural learning. It addresses few points that help to ensure an interculturally sensitive and inclusive approach in the facilitation process; educational developers (EDs) will benefit from referring to these points when working with lecturers who want to leverage intercultural group dynamics to enhance cultural learning. Activating pedagogies, such as experiential learning and group work, are preferred approaches in the international classroom when the aim is to engage students as co-creators of their own learning. Facilitation of intercultural group work influences how students engage with culturally diverse peers. Difficulty with group work is not the sole domain of intercultural groups but, as evidenced above, this is exacerbated when students are asked to work in intercultural groups.
