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Prof. Lourdes Ortega (she/ella) is a Professor at Georgetown University. Her main area of research is in second language acquisition. She is best known for her award-winning meta-analysis of second-language instruction in 2000 and her best-seller textbook Understanding Second Language Acquisition (2009, Routledge, translated into Mandarin in 2016). Her work on technology and language learning includes an edited book on Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching technology and tasks (with Marta González-Lloret, 2014, John Benjamins); a 2017 article in CALICO Journal titled “New CALL-SLA research interfaces for the 21st century: Towards equitable multilingualism”; and a study in the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism titled “Coming out, heteronormativity, and possibilities of intercultural learning in a Google Hangouts telecollaboration” (with Yuka Akiyama, forthcoming). Lourdes is the General Editor of Language Learning (since 2020) and also served as Trustee of the Center for Applied Linguistics (2018-2023) and President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (2022-2023).
Dr. Sonia Rocca
The primary research focus of SONIA ROCCA, founding chair of MOBILLE International Conference (February, 2019), is the impact of new technologies and technological advancements on language learning and teaching. She is a Fulbright Global Scholar and an English Language Specialist with the US Department of State and has been a language educator for thirty years in three different countries, in her native country, Italy, teaching French and English, in Britain, teaching French and Italian. She is currently teaching Italian at the Lycée Français de New York. She obtained her PhD in Applied Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, specializing in the acquisition of a second language during childhood and is the author of Child Second Language Acquisition (John Benjamins, 2007). She has launched a teacher research mentorship program at her school and has collaborated with multiple language teacher education programs nationally as well as internationally.
Dr. Marjan Asgari
Marjan Asgari is Junior professor at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Faculty of Education, Department of Linguistics. She has been teaching German as a foreign language at various universities in Germany, Italy and the USA. Her areas of expertise include academic accompaniment, management and scientific analysis of communities of practice.