The International Journal of Learning: Annual Review

The research described in this article is in the area of expository writing and was conducted at a European University (University of Granada, Spain). It is part of the on-going work in the area of linguistics and cognition and encompassessocial and cultural aspects. The article reports on fndings of its research and aims to identify cross-cultural and technological competencies required for the 21st Century. In these societies multicultural values, participation in production media,social exchange and multilingualwritten communication competences will be spread through new computertechnologies. In orderto fulfl the social exigencies created by new communication ways, the collaboration ofresearch groups for designing and applying international research projects is needed. This research line is innovative because is based on the collaboration with different European University Institutions on the new projects which are being developed to design strategiesforthe developing of cognitive, multilingual and technological competencessimultaneously. These strategies are coherent with the research projects carried out by differentresearch groups at an international level, which are presented in this manuscrip