Interview with Marta González-Lloret and Vilson Leffa: Building an interface between SLA and Technology

Abstract

-Lloret is an associate Professor at the spanish division of the department of languages and literatures of europe and the americas and cooperating Graduate Faculty at the department of second language studies at the university of hawaii, Manoa. her main areas of interest are the intersections of technology and tBlt and technology and l2 pragmatics; conversation analysis for l2 interaction; teacher training; and l2 program assessment. she has published in numerous academic journals and shared her work all over the world. her most recent publication Technology-mediated TBLT: Researching Technology and Tasks is an edited volume with Prof. lourdes ortega by John Benjamins.Vilson J. Leffa received his Phd in teFl from the university of texas in 1984. in Brazil, he worked for the Federal university of rio