Sponge Chats - Perspectives on TBLT teacher education with Lara Bryfonski SPONGE ELT

I have the great pleasure to speak with TBLT researcher and teacher educator Lara Bryfonski. We went into detail about teacher education considerations, working with individual differences, TBLT and young learners, and many other cool stuff.

00:00 Introduction
03:00 Sponge Chats
04:00 Who is Lara?
08:00 How and why did Lara move into research?
11:00 Why should teachers be aware of TBLT?
14:30 How do we bring TBLT to teachers?
17:45 Assessment
20:00 TBLT or tblt?
24:00 Individual teacher differences
28:00 TBLT observation schemes
34:00 The impact of courses on teachers' implementation of TBLT
37:00 Tasks and young learners
45:00 A return to assessment
48:00 Lara's recent projects!
55:00 Lara's piece of advice for TBLT teacher educators
59:00 Book recommendations (and Lara's upcoming book!)