Interview with Professor Don Snow

Professor Don Snow is the Senior Director of Language and Writing Programs at Duke Kunshan University, in Kunshan, China. His book, Encounters with Westerners: Improving Skills in English and Intercultural Communication is a groundbreaking text in the use of Critical Incident Exercises to teach Intercultural Communication in EAP classes, and the exercises on this website are heavily inspired by his work. The interview below was conducted at the University of St Andrews on 5 June 2024, while Don was visiting the university as a Global Fellow. The interviewers are Professor Eoin Jordan, Senior Co-Director of the International Education and Lifelong Learning Institute (IELLI) and Aaron Rotsinger, the Pre-sessional Director and Lead for Transitions at IELLI.