Resumen de Teachers and interculturality: An approach to the profile of SFL teachers

Lucía Criado Torres

• The mission of the intercultural teacher is to master attitudes, knowledge and skills such as facilitating intercultural understanding, making strange the familiar and the familiar strange, adopting the role of mediator between cultures and preparing their students for successful intercultural encounters based on mutual respect and appreciation. This paper presents an overview of the concept of intercultural competence focused on the FL teacher. Likewise, it is an approach to the profile of Spanish teachers in interculturality through experiences, assessments and beliefs about their own teaching styles. In order to describe this situation, a study was carried out with 204 teachers of Spanish as a foreign language, and with the results it has been concluded that, in general terms, they have an intermediate degree of intercultural competence, but the lack of training in interculturality and intercultural conflict resolution stands out.