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Richard Kern is Professor of French and Director of the Berkeley Language Center at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. His pervious publications include Language, Literacy, and Technology (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Literacy and Language Teaching (Oxford University Press, 2000). Christine Develotte is University Professor in Language Sciences at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. She is the originator of the online collaborative learning project Le français en (première) ligne, which has brought together tutors and learners of French from around the world since 2002.

1. Introduction: Intercultural Exchange in the Age of Online Multimodal Communication

Richard Kern and Christine Develotte



Part I. Culture and Technoculture: Re-envisioning Interculturality



2. Comme une Française: Maintaining an Intercultural Threshold Space in Online Video

Juliana de Nooy



3. Glocal Tensions: Exploring the Dynamics of Intercultural Communication Through a Language Learner’s Vlog

Tatiana Codreanu and Christelle Combe



4. People of the Eye Communicating Online: Deaf Intercultural Encounters in E-SCALE

Siglinde Pape



5. Intergenerational Videoconferencing: Interpersonal Bonds and the Role of the Webcam

Erica Dumont



6. Translation, Video-technology, and Interculturality: Benefits and Limits

Layla Roesler and Fabienne Dumontet



Part II. Telepresence, Felt Presence, Imagined Presence



7. Learning and Teaching Languages in Technology-Mediated Contexts: The Relevance of Social Presence, Co-Presence, Participatory Literacy and Multimodal Competence

Mirjam Hauck and Müge Satar



8. Enacting the Scenography of a Video Call Within its Opening Sequence

Samira Ibnelkaïd



9. Affordances and Task Design: A Case Study of Online Mentoring between Practicing Teachers and Adolescent Learners

Paige Ware, Karla del Rosal, and Jillian Conry



10. Seeing Apart and Learning Together: Intersubjectivity in Shared Language Classrooms

David Malinowski



11. Medium and Addressivity in French Online Exchanges

Richard Kern and Emily Linares



12. Effects of Presence in Videoconference Exchanges

Christine Develotte, Morgane Domanchin, and Sabine Levet



13. Multimodality and Social Presence in an Intercultural Exchange Setting

Meei-Ling Liaw and Paige Ware



14. Conclusion

Christine Develotte and Richard Kern