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Silke Mentchen, a graduate of Cologne University, has been teaching German as a foreign language at all levels in tertiary education since 1994. Apart from her position in the German Section, she is also fellow,听Director of Studies and tutor at Magdalene College.听
She is responsible for the curriculum of German undergraduate degree courses taught in the Faculty.
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Silke Mentchen teaches and examines at all levels, with a special interest in translation studies and beginners' language courses. She has developed on-line material, both for the Faculty鈥檚 teaching of translation (see听), and for potential students of languages, see here for examples:听 German modules for听听and听, as well as on-line A2- and AS level material for听.
Together with a colleague, she has published听 a German grammar exercise book, 听 , a book focussing on common errors, and articles on the methodology and pedagogy of on-line resources, see听听and听
Silke Mentchen听is the Faculty鈥檚 adviser for the听, the Faculty鈥檚 coordinator for听听and the Section鈥檚 coordinator for听HE+. Further Widening Participation Projects involve the organisation of a series of short video clips on German A level topics, see here: CCARL. She has been a jury member for the annual DAAD/IMLR since 2015 and a judge on the national final competition since 2017.
In the context of the听Sozialgeschichte听lecture series for the German Section, she has organised the involvement of German writers with the support of Queen Mary University College, London. Previous speakers were:
2007: Sibylle Lewitscharoff and Angelika Overath 2008: Bj枚rn Kern 2009: Matthias Politycki and Jan B枚ttcher 2010: Kai Weyand 2011: Christopher Kloeble 2012: David Wagner 2013: Kristof Magnusson 2014: Thomas Meinecke and Ilija Trojanow 2015: Peter Schneider 2016: Ulf Stolterfoht 2018: Alissa Walser and Judith Kuckart
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Silke Mentchen has presented papers at the IDT (Internationale Deutschlehrer听Tagung) twice, on using CALL and on using metaphors in foreign language teaching. She has organised a听听 in 2017 funded by the 海角社区 DAAD Research Hub. In 2018 she organised a two-day conference 鈥溾��, and she is currently the lead organiser for a series of three workshops on .
She is also an editor for a book on ab initio language teaching for . Publication is planned for December 2022.
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- 2022, . UCL Press
- 2021, 鈥樅＝巧缜� Modern and Medieval Languages Response to COVID-19鈥� In: Radic et al, . 307-320
- 2017, with A. K眉nzl-Snodgrass: Speed up your German, Routledge
- 2005 and 2013, (online)
- 2003, with A. K眉nzl-Snodgrass: Upgrade your German, Routledge
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Further publications:
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- Article "" in Sabine Dengscherz, Martin Businger听& Jaroslava Taraskina听(Hg.) 2014.听Grammatikunterricht zwischen听Linguistik und Didaktik.DaF/DaZ lernen und lehren听im Spannungsfeld von Sprachwissenschaft, empirischer听Unterrichtsforschung und Vermittlungskonzepten.听
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