Originally from Germany, Patricia Haberkorn graduated with a first state examination in secondary education and teaching from Heidelberg University of Education. Besides a degree in teaching English as a foreign language, she also received an additional qualification in teaching German as a foreign language and early foreign language learning. From 2018 to 2019, Patricia pursued her M.Ed. studies at Carthage College where she taught German language courses as a graduate teaching assistant and wrote her thesis Foreign Language Instructors’ Understanding and Implementation of Intercultural Communicative Competence in Higher Education. Afterwards, she completed her second state examination in secondary education and teaching in Ravensburg and Weingarten, Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Patricia is now a joint Ph.D. candidate in Second Language Acquisition and German with a doctoral minor in Educational Psychology at UW-Madison. Her research interests include L2 instructors’ emotions when teaching students with disabilities, the experiences of students with disabilities in the L2 classroom, and L2 pedagogy. In her dissertation, Patricia uses a mixed-methods approach to explore L2 college instructors’ emotions when receiving a letter of accommodation.