“…Interculturality in the area of foreign language teaching in Colombia is an increasing focus of study for researchers (Álvarez & Bonilla, 2009;Álvarez, 2023, Álvarez, 2014Álvarez & Michelson, 2022;Arismendi, 2016;Barletta, 2009;Cárdenas et al, 2010;Cardozo & Lozano, 2020;de Mejía, 2006;Fandiño et al, 2017;Gómez, 2015;Giraldo et al, 2022;Guerrero, 2008;Henao et al, 2019;Núñez-Pardo, 2020;Ortiz et al, 2019;Oviedo & Álvarez, 2019;Rojas-Barreto, 2019;Soto-Molina & Méndez, 2020), who agree that the Colombian academic literature demonstrates a continued interest in topics such as multilingualism, culture teaching-learning, interculturality, and bilingual education. The work of these scholars is connected to four key challenges I identified from the literature that constitute the emerging categories used in my data analysis.…”