Melinda Dooly is a teacher educator at the Science of Education Faculty of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She teaches English as a Foreign Language Methodology (TEFL) and research methods courses, focusing on telecollaboration in education. Her research addresses teacher preparation and the use of CALL and CMC at primary, secondary and university levels.Robert O’Dowd teaches EFL and Applied Linguistics and is secretary for International Training at the University of León, Spain. He has a PhD on the use of networked technologies in the foreign language classroom and has published widely on the theme of online intercultural exchange. He is currently coordinating the INTENT project – a European Commission Lifelong Learning Project on the integration of telecollaboration in university education.

• Contents: Melinda Dooly/Robert O’Dowd: Researching Online Interaction and Exchange in Foreign Language Education: Introduction to the Volume – Jonathon Reinhardt: Accommodating Divergent Frameworks in Analysis of Technology-Mediated L2 Interaction – Françoise Blin: Introducing Cultural Historical Activity Theory for Researching CMC in Foreign Language Education – Paige Ware/Brenna Rivas: Researching Classroom Integration of Online Language Learning Projects: Mixed Methods Approaches – Melinda Dooly/Mirjam Hauck: Researching Multimodal Communicative Competence in Video and Audio Telecollaborative Encounters – Andreas Müller-Hartmann: The Classroom-Based Action Research Paradigm in Telecollaboration – Luisa Panichi/Mats Deutschmann: Language Learning in Virtual Worlds - Research Issues and Methods – Martina Möllering/Mike Levy: Intercultural Competence in Computer-Mediated-Communication: An Analysis of Research Methods – Nina Vyatkina: Applying the Methodology of Learner Corpus Analysis to Telecollaborative Discourse – Breffni O’rourke: Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate Gaze Behaviour in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication for Language Learning.

Melinda Dooly is a teacher educator at the Science of Education Faculty of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). She teaches English as a Foreign Language Methodology (TEFL) and research methods courses, focusing on telecollaboration in education. Her research addresses teacher preparation and the use of CALL and CMC at primary, secondary and university levels.Robert O’Dowd teaches EFL and Applied Linguistics and is secretary for International Training at the University of León, Spain. He has a PhD on the use of networked technologies in the foreign language classroom and has published widely on the theme of online intercultural exchange. He is currently coordinating the INTENT project – a European Commission Lifelong Learning Project on the integration of telecollaboration in university education.

• Contents: Melinda Dooly/Robert O’Dowd: Researching Online Interaction and Exchange in Foreign Language Education: Introduction to the Volume – Jonathon Reinhardt: Accommodating Divergent Frameworks in Analysis of Technology-Mediated L2 Interaction – Françoise Blin: Introducing Cultural Historical Activity Theory for Researching CMC in Foreign Language Education – Paige Ware/Brenna Rivas: Researching Classroom Integration of Online Language Learning Projects: Mixed Methods Approaches – Melinda Dooly/Mirjam Hauck: Researching Multimodal Communicative Competence in Video and Audio Telecollaborative Encounters – Andreas Müller-Hartmann: The Classroom-Based Action Research Paradigm in Telecollaboration – Luisa Panichi/Mats Deutschmann: Language Learning in Virtual Worlds - Research Issues and Methods – Martina Möllering/Mike Levy: Intercultural Competence in Computer-Mediated-Communication: An Analysis of Research Methods – Nina Vyatkina: Applying the Methodology of Learner Corpus Analysis to Telecollaborative Discourse – Breffni O’rourke: Using Eye-Tracking to Investigate Gaze Behaviour in Synchronous Computer-Mediated Communication for Language Learning.