Interdisciplinary Individual PhD

Student Stories

Ginger Farrell holds an MA in French from the University of Washington as well as an MBA from the University of Oklahoma. She is currently working on her Interdisciplinary PhD. Her previous work experience is diverse. While living in France she taught at the Sorbonne University and worked in Finance at Arthur Andersen Consulting in Paris. She has been teaching French in Seattle since 2011. Her current research focuses on improving language learning motivation by enhancing students’ social cognitive repository and thereby elaborating their L2 self-schema. Read more >


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