Chesla Ann Lenkaitis received her Ph.D. from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. Before finishing her doctoral work, Dr. Lenkaitis worked as a public high school teacher for over 8 years. She is now an Assistant Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages at Binghamton University (Binghamton, New York, USA). In the department, she devotes her time to being the language coordinator of the introductory and teaching Spanish courses. Dr. Lenkaitis also has a courtesy joint title in Binghamton’s Department of Teaching, Learning, and Educational Leadership. Here she is the program coordinator of the Master of Arts in Teaching in French or Spanish Adolescence Education and teaches education courses to prepare future middle and high school French and Spanish teachers. Her research focuses on not only identifying the most effective ways to facilitate the teaching and learning of a second language (L2), but also to pinpoint strategies that should be used in L2 teaching. Her areas of specialty include vocabulary acquisition and technology integration in the L2 classroom. More specifically, she examines the use of virtual exchange and its impact on the L2 learning and teaching, intercultural competence, and global citizenship and awareness.