Julieta Fernández is Assistant Professor in the Spanish Portuguese Department. She is also a faculty member in the interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching SLAT) and a member of the Technology Enhanced Language Learning TELL) cluster at the University of Arizona. She received her Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on L2 pragmatics; language learning and technology; and second language learning and pedagogy.