Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 1 A Thoroughly Modern Medium -- 2 Situating the Research -- 3 Research Methods -- 4 EL2 CMC Activities and Communicative (Dis)Comfort -- 5 Contexts and Attitudes -- 6 Difficulties Encountered in EL2 CMC Interactions -- 7 Language Online: A Corpus Study -- 8 Towards an Integration of EL2 CMC and Formal Instruction -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Questionnaire -- Appendix B: Codebook from Qualitative Analysis -- Index