• Noor Fazzrienee Bt JZ Nun Ramlan

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• Nurul Munirah Bt Azamri

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• Nadiah Binti Zubbir

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This study aims to investigate the multicultural awareness among English teachers in Malaysia. The need for teachers and students to adjust to their environment is an important consideration as we attempt to understand the multicultural education’s relationship to teachers’ awareness. The underlying rationale of this study is multilingual and multicultural communication competencies are vital for living, studying, and working in an internationalised knowledge-based society. It is hoped that the findings will provide imperative information for future studies in measuring multicultural awareness level and to yield insight how important is multicultural awareness among teachers. At present, research on multicultural education includes four elements in multicultural competencies: teachers’ awareness, knowledge, attitudes, and skills. It is therefore necessary to investigate if such findings reveal truth for the Malaysian context. The findings of this study will therefore have implications for understanding the importance of multicultural awareness in teaching and learning. Hence, this paper will reveal the insights of multicultural awareness level among English teachers as a part of multicultural competence.

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