 My first day as an international student in Aotearoa, New Zealand walking down the corridor at university I see one of the staff members who say who says hi. How are you? I reply very tired. I didn't have a good sleep in you Her expression changes and she replies fine things I Can read over sharing. I was just being polite. I Was grammatically correct, but speaking a language properly is not enough My teachers told me all about grammar vocabulary and use of greetings But didn't help me understand that culture is embedded in language This is integral because learning languages is a great way to learn to respect cultures that are different to your own However, this doesn't develop naturally as we can see in the discrimination towards people who are different Educational authorities around the world have been developing teaching approaches for educators to create empathetic human beings In 2010 in Aotearoa, New Zealand the Ministry of Education published a report on interculturality To help teachers help us students communicate respectfully with people with different languages and cultures Something particularly relevant here in Aotearoa, New Zealand because of its multicultural nature This is challenging because teachers may not be intercultural or may not have any intercultural training My study Investigated whether and how language teachers with dealing with interculturality in the classrooms I interviewed and observed 16 secondary school teachers of Chinese, Japanese, Spanish and French I contributed to my field by examining the role of teachers proficiency in the language thought regarding interculturality Because previous research didn't focus on that Neither being a native speaker, not having higher or lower proficiency ensured teachers intercultural practices This resonates with the idea that native speakers are not inherently better teachers Across all level of proficiency teachers demonstrated an implicit potential to help the students understand that Speaking a language properly is not enough However, most teachers didn't have in intercultural training that is what seems to be needed for teachers to fulfill the potential Why is my study important? Because discrimination is a constant in our world Interculturality is a means of generating respectful diversity and language teaching presents a perfect scenario because Diversity is inherent when it comes to interculturality As my study has demonstrated what matters is teachers intercultural potential rather than their proficiency so After this just stay at the corridor if we bump into each other and I ask hey, how are you? What will you say? Thank you