Over the last two decades drama pedagogy has helped to lay the foundations for a new teaching and learning culture, one that accentuates physicality and centres on performative experience. Signs of this 'performative turn' in education are especially strong in the field of foreign/second language teaching. This volume introduces scholars, language teachers, student teachers and drama practitioners to the concept of a performative foreign language didactics. Approaching the subject from a wide variety of contexts, the contributors explore the extent to which performative approaches, emphasising the role of the body as a learning medium, can achieve deep intercultural learning. Drama activities such as improvisation, hot seating and tableaux are shown to create rich opportunities for intercultural encounters that transport students beyond the parameters of conventional language, literature and culture education. After an introduction entitled, Going Performative in Intercultural Education: International Contexts--Theoretical Perspectives--Models of Practice, by John Crutchfield and Manfred Schewe, this book is divided into six parts. Part 1, First Impressions, contains the following chapter: (1) The Intercultural Surprise: Teaching Improvisational Theatre in Different Cultural Contexts (Magdalena Haftner and Alexander Riedmüller). Part 2, Focus on Schools (Immigrant/Refugee Children), contains the following chapters: (2) The Ethics of Performative Approaches in Intercultural Education (Katja Frimberger); (3) Diadrasis: An Interactive Project on Language Teaching to Immigrant Families in a Greek School (Evi Kompiadou, Antonis Lenakakis, and Roula Tsokalidou); and (4) Developing Empathy Through Theatre: A Transcultural Perspective in Second Language Education (Joelle Aden). Part 3, Focus on Teacher Training, contains the following chapters: (5) Interculturality in Foreign Language Teacher Training: Performing Arts Projects Across National, Language and Cultural Borders (Micha Fleiner); (6) Exploring Diversity Through Drama Education: English-Turkish Perspectives on National German Stereotypes in Foreign Language Teacher Training (Almut Küppers); and (7) Staging Otherness: Three New Empirical Studies in Dramapädagogik with Relevance for Intercultural Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom (John Crutchfield and Michaela Sambanis). Part 4, Focus on Specific Performative Approaches: Process Drama and Playback Theatre, contains the following chapters: (8) Using Process Drama to Engage Beginner Learners in Intercultural Language Learning (Julia Rothwell); and (9) Intercultural/Dramatic Tension and the Nature of Intercultural Engagement (Erika Piazzoli). Part 5, Focus on Performance and Biography, contains the following chapters: (10) Enacting Life: Dialogue and Mediation in Cross-Cultural Contexts (Daniel Feldhendler); and (11) Suitcase of Survival: Performance, Biography and Intercultural Education (Jane Arnfield). Part 6, Performative Approaches to Intercultural Education: A Culture-Specific Perspective, contains the following chapter: (12) The Intercultural Journey: Drama-Based Practitioners in JFL in North America, and JSL and EFL in Japan (Eucharia Donnery).