Lara Bryfonski is an applied linguist and second language acquisition researcher. Her research interests include: second language learning and pedagogy, task-based language teaching, interaction and corrective feedback, language teacher training, individual differences in second language learning, language learning in study abroad, second language research methods and meta-analysis.
She is an assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at Georgetown University where she teach courses on these topics and advise graduate and undergraduate linguistics students.