Ms Silke Mentchen
College:
Magdalene College
Positions:
Senior Language Teaching Officer
Department of German and Dutch
Postal Address:
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
University of Cambridge
Sidgwick Avenue
CAMBRIDGE CB3 9DA
Email:
scm30@cam.ac.uk
Phone:
(+44) (0)1223 335017
Fax
(+44) (0)1223 335062
Silke Mentchen, a graduate of Cologne University, has been teaching German as a foreign language at all levels in tertiary education since 1994. She is one of two Senior Language Teaching Officers in the Department of German and Dutch. She is also fellow and Director of Studies at Magdalene College and German Lector at Trinity Hall. In these capacities she teaches and examines at all levels, with a special interest in translation studies and beginners' language courses. She has developed on-line teaching material for the department, published
Upgrade Your German, a German grammar exercise book, and
Just-in-Time Grammar, an on-line grammar programme together with her colleague Annemarie Künzl-Snodgrass. She has also developed on-line A2- and AS level material for
Villiers Park (see
here) and is currently working with the European Radio Network
EURANET where she is in charge of the Academic Circle.
