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""This compelling volume presents pioneering work into Virtual English as a Lingua Franca and provides significant insights into discourse, practice, and implications of VELF for ELT professionals in the fast-moving and interconnected world in the digital age. It is a welcome collection that explores ELF practice constructed amid spatial repertoires in virtual communities. It is an enjoyable read with theory-based analyses of fascinating data, which offer rich resources for teachers and students who look for timely inspiration to make ELT classrooms and learning activities more engaging!""- Ying Wang, University of Southampton

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Inmaculada Pineda is Assistant Professor at the University of Málaga (Spain). Applying ELF research implications into Teacher Training and ELT, she has published on multimedia resources in Teacher Education from an ELF perspective; pre-service teachers’ metalinguistic attitudes; ELF Pedagogy and CLIL/EMI training programs. Her current research interests focus on ELF Pedagogy and teacher training, VELF, and Transmodality and Translanguaging. Rino Bosso is an independent researcher with a keen interest in intercultural pragmatics and online communication. He has worked as a research fellow and lecturer in English for Specific Purposes at the University of Cagliari, Italy, and has recently completed a PhD on VELF communication at the University of Vienna, Austria. His most recent publications focus on the longitudinal investigation of informal learning processes enacted through naturally-occurring VELF exchanges.

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