O'Dowd, R., Sauro, S. and Spector-Cohen, E. (2020), The Role of Pedagogical Mentoring in Virtual Exchange. TESOL Q, 54: 146-172. https://doi.org/10.1002/tesq.543

This article focuses on the role of the teacher as pedagogical mentor in virtual exchange and examines the impact of the strategies and techniques that teachers use in their classes to support students’ learning during their online intercultural projects. The article begins with a proposed categorization of pedagogical mentoring reported in the literature to date. It then reports on the outcomes of a virtual exchange project carried out by three classes of initial English teacher education in Israel, Spain, and Sweden that involved two types of pedagogical mentoring.