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One of the advantages of teaching culture is to display different cultural frames to developlanguage awareness and pragmatic usage. Culture is a phenomenon to be searched deeply in terms ofEnglish language teaching on the grounds of a scarce number of studies on it. Accordingly, thisstudy examines pre-service and novice EFL teachers’ perception of teaching “culture” and itsinstructional effect on multicultural settings. Accordingly, a 24-item intercultural sensitivityquestionnaire developed by Chen and Starosta (2000) was used. Besides, interview and focus groupsessions were carried out for the triangulation of the data. In the findings, it is concluded thatparticipants who know more than two languages had more confidence in intercultural interaction.Besides, it was put forward that experience has a positive role in cultivating intercultural sensitivity. Itwas also recognized that novice English teachers are highly motivated to integrate interculturalelements into language teaching. Additionally, some suggestions, including culture-specific activities,informative multicultural materials, and methods have been provided.

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