Abstract:

Today, as a result of globalization, cultural and linguistic interaction has become inevitable and learning at least one foreign language has become compulsory. In the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, which is a foreign language education program that supports multicultural life and encourages to respect and tolerate other cultures and to interact with people of different races, it is recommended to teach some cultural elements of the country where the target language is spoken in the process of foreign language teaching/learning. As a matter of fact, the phenomenon of language and culture emerges as the two most important elements to be emphasized in the globalizing world. Because communication takes place through language, understanding each other and acting together requires mutual understanding. In the world of the future, the idea of multicultural education is seen as the most accommodating and futurist education model in order to educate global citizens who do not see differences as obstacles, who try to make the world more livable with a universal perspective by seeing and imagining beyond borders, and who act with the reflex of protecting it and supports the peace, who are tolerant of other cultures and languages. The study was carried out with a qualitative research screening model. In the context of globalization, the relationship between language and culture, the place of multilingualism and multiculturalism in the modern world and the reflections of multicultural education on foreign language education and teaching are examined with a critical perspective.  

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