Tribute to Mike Byram

Down time. I check my emails. There’s one from Professor Michael Byram. (No, he’s ‘Mike’ to everyone, everywhere, except in keynote introductions.) The email is an update on yet another new project he is embarking on – doctoral assessment. At the end of his email, I notice something new – a YouTube video link to his newly published book Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence: Revisited (Byram, 2021). I open the link to the video – a conversation between Mike and Karen Risager (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDbpRNStfPc). I watch and listen with interest. I’m eager to learn how Mike and Karen work together to discuss