The dialectical connection between language and culture has always been the concern of foreign language teachers and educators who emphasize the cruciality of culturally appropriate language use. They argue that knowledge of linguistic features is not sufficient for successful communication. However, it needs an awareness of the sociocultural context within which the interaction occurs. Moreover, they justify the need for cultural literacy in language teaching by the significant hardship that learners encounter in communicating meaning if they are not exposed to cultural elements of the society in question. This issue becomes of paramount importance mainly in the contemporary technology-mediated world where globalization and new technologies have opened a plethora of new opportunities for intercultural communication by bringing learners together for web-enabled interactions and offering them innovative learning platforms and many new ways to encounter other cultures and languages. Although the benefits of teaching culture in L2 classes were universally acknowledged and culture was widely taught in language classes, the debate over the "why," "what," and "how" of teaching culture has heated up. This, indeed, provoked foreign language teachers and educators to express their need for critical literature that challenges current language pedagogy practices and suggests ways to conceptualize culture in the language education context by providing insightful guidance on effective cultural teaching methods and techniques. In this regard, this international conference is intended to satisfy the aforementioned need by affording foreign language educators, practitioners, and cultural researchers the opportunity to introduce, discuss, and promote the exchange of their theoretical and empirical findings and expertise regarding culture pedagogy in foreign language classrooms from a variety of perspectives. This, of course, by focusing its scope on innovative research intended to booster L2 learners’ intercultural communicative competence, which is indispensable to cope with the communication demands of the globalization era.