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Online Teaching Communities Fostering EFL Learning

Experiences of implementing early virtual practicum for online language learning are scarce. A case study with an experiential component, aimed at fostering a preservice language teacher’s pedagogical knowledge for online language learning. Information derived from a community of experts in online learning contributed to the implementation of a specific instructional design type in an in-service/preservice teacher collaboration model. Both the benefits of this practice and some aspects to be improved will be discussed.