Jane Govoni received her MA in Spanish from Boston College and her PhD in  Interdisciplinary Education with an emphasis on Second Language Acquisition  and Technology (SLAIT) from the University of South Florida (USF). She held a tenured faculty position at Saint Leo University and is currently the ESOL/Foreign Language Program Coordinator at USF. She has authored several publications, presented at numerous language conferences, and is actively involved in teacher preparation with a focus on ESOL training. She has served as a reviewer for the Florida Teacher Certifi cation Exam for both ESOL and Spanish. She is a recipient of the Roy L. Lauter Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators (SRATE) Distinguished Service Award and the USF Margaret Burlington Tritle Excellence in Teaching Award. Jane is also a founding member of the Florida Foreign Language Association (FFLA) and has received several other distinct honors in education.