
Elfrieda Lepp-Kaethler
Elfrieda Lepp-Kaethler (Ph.D. Psycholinguistics, University of Nottingham, UK, Diploma in Expressive Arts Therapy) grew up on a grain farm near Rivers, Manitoba. She has worked as a language teacher, teacher educator and expressive arts consultant educator in many countries including Paraguay, Ukraine, China, The Philippines, Moldova and Greece. On faculty at Providence since 2000, she has directed the M.A. TESOL and M.Ed. TESOL programs since 2006. Her research interests include motivation in language learning, the role of expressive arts in instructed second language acquisition, and trauma-sensitive language learning with forcibly displaced children and adults (refugees). One of her favourite hobbies is committing random acts of crocheting.