In this issue

The articles in this Supplement once again exemplify the ever geographically-expanding sources of our contributions. Collectively, they engage in an impassioned call for an increasingly global mindset through their diverse subjects, themes, and approaches. Whether they are enlivening the debates around the traditional East-West binary or local/global opposition, questioning the mismatches between the teachers’ and learners’ expectations or between cross-culturally informed pedagogical approaches and learner assumptions, or highlighting the gap between what we think others mean and what they intend to say, these articles make a point – explicitly or implicitly – that effective intercultural communication goes beyond purely linguistic competence.