TEFL Interviews 25: Sarah Mercer (Live at JALT 2016)

Welcome back to the TEFLology Podcast – A podcast all about teaching English as a foreign language and related matters.

Today we bring you the first of our three interviews conducted as part of our forum ‘Teacher Interviews: Stories of Transformation,’ at the JALT2016 conference in Nagoya.

In this episode, Matt speaks to Sarah Mercer. Sarah works at the University of Graz in Austria as the head of ELT Methodology. Sarah’s research interests include learner self-concept, complexity, psychology in language learning, as well as teacher/learner mindset. Sarah was a featured speaker to this year’s JALT conference, information about her sessions can be found here. More information about Sarah, he publications, and her research can be found at her homepage.