Origins, Challenges, and the Future of Plurilingual Education Programs in Spain Juan Rubio, Antonio Daniel García Conesa, Isabel María Bilingualism Foreign language Plurilingual education Languages occupy a very important place in our lives. Knowing a language not only sets new linguistic strategies and skills for yourself, but it gives a perspective on cultural diversity. This allows intercultural communication, which leads to an increase in globalization and harmony among the universe. This chapter provides an overview of the origins of the plurilingual programs in Spain, and it also shares some of the challenges bilingual teachers face in the classrooms teaching in tri-plurilingual programs and the future of the tri-plurilingual education programs in Spain. Findings in the area of third language acquisition and trilingualism have contributed to a better understanding of multilingual processes and use. Third language teaching, in consequence, has been informed by various trends in research of multilingual acquisition, but is also challenged by these findings. This research explains some educational and sociolinguistic characteristics of multilingual teaching in Spain and gives priority to current research in the teaching language field. 2024-02-08T08:43:42Z 2024-02-08T08:43:42Z 2023-03-18 book part Juan Rubio, A.D. & García Conesa, I.M. (2023). Origins, challenges and future of pluriingual education programs in Spain. En Handbook of Research on Language Teacher Identity. Sviatlana Karpava (Ed), pp. 372-394. IGi Global. https://hdl.handle.net/10481/88666 10.4018/978-1-6684-7275-0.ch020 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ embargoed access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional IGI Global