ABSTRACT
This chapter explores what is meant by global citizenship, global competency, intercultural competency, and intercultural citizenship. It examines several models of intercultural competence and discuss the construct of the ‘intercultural speaker’ in relation to second language speakers. The chapter reviews global, linguistic, and intercultural competencies that are needed in complex world. It offers to enhance one’s intercultural competency and take steps toward ethical, global citizenship. Intercultural communicative competence focuses on ‘establishing and maintaining relationships’ instead of merely communicating messages or exchanging information. In intercultural citizenship, the question of national or cosmopolitan allegiances is not important; intercultural citizenship is not a matter of creating identifications with state or any other entity. Intercultural competence implies effective and appropriate communication with individuals who have a different cultural background. Intercultural speakers are depicted as competent, flexible communicators who ‘engage with complexity and multiple identities’ and ‘avoid stereotyping which accompanies perceiving someone through a single identity’
