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Abstract This article considers the skills that enable teachers to foster interaction and collaboration in online language learning. Drawing on Hampel and Stickler's (2005 Hampel, R. and Stickler, U. 2005. New skills for new classrooms: Training tutors to teach languages online. Computer Assisted Language Learning, 18(4): 311–26. [Taylor the second one, a teacher training study, aimed to examine distance teachers’ experience of facilitating online group work, identify development needs, try out the potential of specific asynchronous and synchronous tools to support collaborative learning and trial possible development activities. The paper concludes by describing the kind of training programme that tutors require in order to acquire the skills identified.
Regine Hampel (Sun,) studied this question.