Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface

Introduction

LANGUAGE AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE Chapter 1 Learning-oriented assessment in an international virtual exchange / Paul Wicking Chapter 2 From demotivation to Intercultural Communicative Competence (ICC): Japanese university learner journeys in the International Virtual ExchangeProject (IVEProject) / Eucharia Donnery Chapter 3 Annotating appraisal in a mobile telecollaboration project: A linguistic analysis of students' engagement / Alberto Andujar and Paloma Marmol Trapote Chapter 4 Learner appropriation of genre in a US-China virtual exchange / Carolin Fuchs, Bruce Tung, and Bill Snyder Chapter 5 "Zoom" in and speak out: Virtual exchange in language learning / Kaishan Kong

CULTURE AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE Chapter 6 Developing intercultural communicative competence in ESP contexts through virtual exchange: An ecological perspective / Anna Nicolaou and Ana Sevilla-Pavón Chapter 7 Video exchange telecollaboration: Towards developing interculturality in EFL environments / Martin Parsons, Mikel Garant, and Elizaveta Shikhova Chapter 8 Taking action in a virtual exchange with Brazilian and U.S. students / Eduardo Viana da Silva and Ana Cristina Biondo Salomão Chapter 9 Tackling problems, finding solutions: Creativity and collaboration in crosscultural virtual exchange during a pandemic / Clara Bauler, Devin Thornburg, Óscar Ceballos, Carlos Pineda, Esther Kogan and Pirjo Sorri

TEACHER EDUCATION AND VIRTUAL EXCHANGE Chapter 10 Integrating the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals into a teacher preparation program: Developing content for virtual exchanges /
Chesla Ann Lenkaitis Chapter 11 Enhancing ELLs’ understanding through the use of examples, questions, and native language connections during virtual exchange /
Shannon M. Hilliker and Devindi Samarakkody Chapter 12 Developing linguistically responsive pedagogy among K-12 mainstream teacher candidates through virtual exchange / Alexandra Laletina, Anna Zhiganova and Elena Gritsenko Chapter 13 Virtual exchange to enhance English language teacher trainees’ professional development – insights from a Czech-Polish project /
Blanka Babická, Barbara Loranc-Paszylk and Josef Nevařil

Conclusion

"Virtual exchanges provide language learners with a unique opportunity to develop their target language skills, support inter-cultural exchange, and afford teacher candidates space to hone their teaching craft. The research presented in this volume investigates the role of virtual exchanges as both a teaching tool to support second language acquisition and a space for second language development. Practitioners obtain guidance on the different types of exchanges that currently exist and on the outcome of those exchanges so that they can make informed decisions on whether to include this type of program in their language teaching and learning classrooms. To this end, this edited volume contains chapters that describe individual virtual exchanges along with results of research done on each exchange to show how the exchange supported specific second language teaching and learning goals." (Publisher's Website)