This book is an essential resource for researchers in the field of applied linguistics as well as practising teachers and teacher trainees in secondary and higher education. It explores collaboration in the foreign language classroom through the use of new media. Combining theoretical, empirical and practical insights into this intricate area of research, the contributions take different approaches across a wide range of international contexts.

Christian Ludwig & Kris Van de Poel: "Introduction" 7 // Christian Ludwig & Kris Van de Poel: "Collaborative Learning and the New Media" 13 // Jozef Colpaert & Linda Gijsen: "Ontological Specification of Telecollaborative Tasks in Language Teaching" 23 // Lienhard Legenhausen: "Authentic Interactions and Language Learning – The Interaction Hypothesis Revisited" 41 // Theresa Schenker & Fiona Heather Poorman: "Students’ Perceptions of Telecollaborative Communication Tools" 55 // Maria Eisenmann: "Differentiation and Individualisation through Digital Media" 73 // Saskia Kersten: "Email Communication in the EFL classroom" 87 // Veronica dal Bianco & Lawrie Moore-Walter: "Tools and Collaborative Tasks for Enabling Language Learning in a Blended Learning Environment"103 // Thorsten Merse & Fiona Heather Poorman: "Voices from the University Classroom: Using Social Media for Collaborative Learning in Language Teacher Education" 129 // Christine Fourie: "Facing (and Facebooking) Authentic Tasks in a Blended Learning Environment: Metacognitive Awareness Demonstrated by Medical Students" 151 // Kris Van de Poel & Jessica Gasiorek: "Collaborative Academic Acculturation Processes in a Blended-Learning Approach" 177 // Stephan Gabel & Jochen Schmidt: "Collaborative Writing with Writing Pads in the Foreign Language Classroom – Chances and Limitations" 189 // Judith Buendgens-Kosten: "Writing for a ‘Real Audience’? The Role of Audience in Computer-Assisted Language Learning" 213 // Simon Falk: "'Let’s Work Together' – How Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Can Contribute to More Collaboration and Interaction among Students" 227 // Bert Van Poeck: "Critical Perspectives on the Collaborative Learning Potential of Digital Game-Based Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom" 241 // Dominik Rumlich & Sabine Ahlers: "The Rich Environment of CLIL Classes as an Ideal Setting for
Collaborative Learning" 255 // Jo Mynard: "Investigating Social Presence in a Social Networking Environment" 271 // Elke Ruelens, Nick Van deneynde & Dieter Vermandere: "A Preliminary Needs Analysis for Online Collaborative Language Learning" 291 // Christian Ludwig & Kris Van de Poel: "Postscript" 311 // Christian Ludwig & Kris Van de Poel: "Further Reading" 315 //