María Luisa Pérez Cañado is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology of the University of Jaén (Spain). Her research interests are in Applied Linguistics, bilingual education, and the intercultural component in language teaching. She has been granted the Ben Massey Award for the quality of her scholarly contributions regarding issues that make a difference in Higher Education.Juan Ráez Padilla holds a European PhD in English Studies and is Associate Professor at the Department of English Philology of the University of Jaén. His research interests are in Applied Linguistics, the European Higher Education Area and modern British and Irish literature.

• Contents: Daniel Madrid-Fernández: The New Competency-based Foreign Language Teacher Education in the European Context – Anna Franca Plastina: A European Approach to Language Teaching: Developing Competency in the Usage of Web 2.0 Tools – Anna Brígido-Corachán/María Goretti Zaragoza-Ninet: What’s HappeNING?: Expanding the ESL Classroom through Educational Social Network Sites – Sergio Maruenda-Bataller/Begoña Clavel-Arroitia: The use of ICT for Competence Teaching: A Practical Approach at the University of Valencia – Noa Talaván/Elena Bárcena/Álvaro Villaroel: Aprendizaje Colaborativo Asistido por Ordenador para la Transferencia de las Competencias Mediadora y Lingüístico-comunicativa en Inglés Especializado – Pilar Rodríguez-Arancón/María Jordano-de la Torre: An innovative Approach for Developing Oral Skills in English in a Distance Course – Miriam Borham-Puyal/Susana Olmos-Migueláñez: Enhancing the Competency-based Approach to Learning in Literary Studies: Strategies and Resources – Kent Löfgren: Competency Development and Evaluation: Student-centred Assessment Methodologies Related to the EHEA.