Pachler, N; (2008) E-learning (Research) and Foreign Languages: an Introduction. In: Marriott, RDCV and Torres, L and Marriott, DCV, (eds.) Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition. (xxiii-xxix). Information Science Reference (Idea Group Reference): Hershey, Pennsylvania.

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In this opening piece, I attempt to offer an introduction to the Handbook of Research on E-Learning Methodologies for Language Acquisition edited by Rita de Cassia Veiga Marriott and Patricia Lupion Torres from the perspective of a non-participant observer. I am very grateful for the invitation by the editors to share my comments on their ambitious project in this way, and I will do so not only on the basis of a careful reflection on the chapters featured in this book, but also against the background of my own personal professional engagement as a teacher and researcher over many years, latterly in a leading specialist higher education institution, inter alia with the fields of foreign language (FL) teaching, learning and research as well as FL teacher education and development with particular reference to digital technologies and their application for (FL) teaching and learning. In so doing, my main points of reference will be the chapters of this Handbook and their individual and collective contribution to the field. Partly due to lack of space, and partly because the historical overviews and literature reviews featured by individual chapters already offer an engagement with at least some of the key literature in the field, I will refrain from providing my own topography here.

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