ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, dramatic social changes have confronted teachers with new demands, for which their own education has not prepared them. These demands spring from the greater internationalisation of economic activity, the acceleration of migration, increased linguistic and cultural diversity, and the resurgence of exclusionary forms of nationalism. The challenge to teacher education is to find ways to equip teachers with the knowledge, skills, and values that they will require to confront the challenges of the future, and to provide strategies and insights that they can incorporate in their personal and professional practice. This chapter examines how the challenge is being and can be addressed in the education of second or foreign language teachers. It focuses principally on the experience in Europe and explores the ways in which intercultural issues are being incorporated into new approaches to teaching, including content and language integrated learning, language awareness, multilingual teaching, and language teaching for migrants. This chapter also addresses the existential issues of promoting intercultural values that are challenged by the new forms of nationalism.
