Steven L. Thorne is Professor of Second Language Acquisition in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Portland State University (USA), with a secondary appointment in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands). His interests include new media, mobile technologies, contextual traditions of language analysis and usage-based and distributed approaches to language development. Stacey Katz received her Ph.D from the University of Texas, Austin, in French Linguistics. Stacey Katz is currently the Director of Language Programs in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She has published several pedagogical texts and presented her research at major conferences. Stacey's research interests include Applied French Linguistics, French syntax and French pragmatics. Sebastien Dubreil is Teaching Professor of French and Francophone Studies, SLA, and Technology-Enhanced Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Specializing in CALL, he focuses on the use of technology in fostering transcultural learning. His most recent research examines the notions of social pedagogies, linguistic landscapes, and game-based language and culture learning.