Abstract: "This paper is a case study of an international project that linked two English as a foreign language classes in Italy and Poland and an English composition class in the United States. The goal of the project was to foster intercultural communicative competence and an understanding of English as a cosmopolitan language. English learners in Italy and Poland collaborated with students in the US to develop tourist brochures. Our data set consists of preproject questionnaires and feedback comments offered by the participants. We inductively identified patterns in the way students approached collaboration in cross-cultural virtual teams and the type of feedback they tend to offer. While English learners rarely criticized the texts produced by their project partners, students in the US addressed design flaws, problems in content strategy, and the lack of attention to preferences and motivations of the target audience. Our study shows that collaborative writing activities in first- and second-language classes help students see writing as an act of mediation between authors and audiences. International collaboration stimulates students to appreciate the value of becoming curious and open to difference while engaging with the Other, which is a key step in the development of intercultural competence for twenty-first century global citizens."(...)