Shannon Sauro

Teacher trainer and expert in virtual exchange, & computer-assisted language learning.

Shannon Sauro is a specialist in technologically-mediated language teaching and learning at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). Shannon has taught at universities in the United States and Sweden. Her areas of research include the role of virtual exchange in teacher education as well as the intersection of online fan practices and language learning and teaching. She has published widely in these areas and is editor of the books CALL for Mobility (with Joanna Pitura) and The Handbook of Technology and Second Language Teaching and Learning (with Carol A. Chapelle). She is past president of the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO) and currently serves on the board of UNICollaboration, an organisation for virtual exchange. She holds a PhD in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA in teaching English to speakers of other languages from Iowa State University.