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Business English 3.0: Hands-on Online and Virtual Collaboration Tasks aims to provide a wealth of resources to guide language teachers willing to explore and implement virtual exchanges for language learning for specific purposes through collaborative tasks. It intends to equip language teachers with the necessary guidance and understanding to approach innovation within telecollaborative ESP settings, leading to the development of new forms of learner interaction. Furthermore, it proposes different ways of incorporating these approaches into a curriculum in which, ultimately, learners engage in a common task where each individual depends on and is accountable to each other. This collaborative effort by ESP specialists and researchers from the iTECLA Project approaches educational innovation by combining: ? English for Specific Purposes, resulting from the firm embedding of English as the lingua franca in business, economy and international trade in an ever-increasing globalised world. ? Virtual Exchange, the practice of engaging classes of geographically dispersed learners in online intercultural exchange u
