Articles in this special issue include the following: "ICT and Modern Foreign Languages: Learning Opportunities and Training Needs" (Graham Davies); "Authoring, Pedagogy and the Web: Expectations Versus Reality" (Paul Bangs); "Web-based Instructional Environments: Tools and Techniques for Effective Second Language Acquisition" (Esperanza Roman); "From Rooms to Environments: Techno-Short-Sightedness and Language Laboratories" (Pascual Perez); "Web Assisted Language Learning (WALL) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) in Virtual Centres for Foreign Languages" (German Ruiperez); "Improving the Virtual Learning Development Processes Using XML Standards" (Kurt Suss and Thomas Oberhofer); "Principles in Call Software Design and Implementation" (Ana Gimeno); "Integrating Corpus-based Resources and Natural Language Processing Tools into CALL (Pascual Cantos); "Tele-enREDando.com: A Multimedia WEB-CALL Software for Mobile Phones" (Jose Carlos Garcia); "A Minimalist Approach to Multi-level IT-Human Integration in Translation Work" (Jesus Soria); "OE CAI: Computer-Assisted Instruction of Old English" (Alejandro Alcaraz); and "New Technologies and Genre Variation. Printed and Electronic Documents in Tertiary Education ESP Courses" (Piedad Fernandez). (VWL)