Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms

In today’s globalized world, telecollaboration offers a valuable tool to foster language learners’ intercultural communicative competence, which is strongly related to pragmatic competence. Therefore, both pragmatic and intercultural skills need to be fostered in the foreign language classroom. As telecollaboration projects can be carried out in many ways, further study on the latest original research is required. Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms reports current empirical research methods and reviews relevant theoretical advances in the implementation of telecollaboration for the teaching of foreign languages, second languages, languages for specific purposes, and telecollaboration as a means to foster intercultural and pragmatic competence. Covering key topics such as augmented reality, second language learning, and foreign language learning, this premier reference source is ideal for policymakers, administrators, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

Dr Sofia Di Sarno-García holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain) as a member of the CAMILLE research group. Her main research interests include interlanguage pragmatics, intercultural communicative competence, and telecollaboration. Her research has appeared in refereed international books: e.g., Intercultural Communication and Ubiquitous Learning in Multimodal English Language Education (García-Sánchez & Clouet, 2022, IGI Global) and she is the main editor of the volume Telecollaboration Applications in Foreign Language Classrooms (2023, IGI Global) and co-editor of the volume Discussing Global Citizenship through Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) - Virtual Exchange (VE) in Language Learning and Teaching (2023, Coventry University). She is also about to publish a monograph entitled Acquiring pragmatic and intercultural communicative competences in the digital era: a telecollaboration study (Bloomsbury Academic). Besides, Sofia is currently Assistant Editor of the journal The Eurocall Review and a member of the International Association for Teaching Pragmatics (ITAP). She has also taught English as a foreign language at the Universitat Politècnica de València to engineering students and at the Universitat de València to pre-service teachers, both in Spain. She completed a research Erasmus placement at Coventry University (UK) in 2022 at the Centre for Global Learning.

Salvador Montaner-Villalba is Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics with a special interest in Web 2.0, Flipped Learning, Mobile-Assisted Language Learning, and Gamification within Project-Based Language Learning. Dr. Salvador Montaner-Villalba lectures on Open and Educational Resources, Mobile Learning, and Gamification in the classroom, in particular, within the EFL Classroom. Montaner-Villalba is also a Teacher Trainer on ICT and Active Methodologies with a well-consolidated career. He has also been an ESP Lecturer at University. Montaner-Villalba has contributed to prestigious international online universities where he has taught Educational Technology, in all its variables, such as the implementation of Flipped Learning, Mobile Learning, Project-Based Learning, and, currently, Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence in the field of Education.

Ana Ma Gimeno-Sanz is Full Professor of English Language in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. She has published numerous research papers on language learning and teaching, more specifically in the fields of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), and Content and language Integrated Learning (CLIL). Prof. Gimeno is Head of the CAMILLE Research Group, devoted to research in CALL and e-Learning. She is Associate Editor of ReCALL (Q1 journal published by Cambridge University Press) and serves on the Editorial Board of Computer-Assisted Language Learning Journal (Q1 journal published by Taylor and Francis), as well as being editor-in-chief of The EUROCALL Review. She has been President of the European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) for 6 years (2005-2011) and is currently President of the world organisation for computer-assisted language learning, WorldCALL ( ).