User:Maike Engelhardt:Biography

Born and raised at the beautiful North Sea Coast, Maike moved all the way to the fair city of Bremen so pursue studies in English and Religious Education. Grasping the opportunity to choose between a stint in Terre Haute, Indiana or Morgantown, West Virginia, she shyed away from great heights (and later learned that Terre Haute was a euphemism), and took to the country roads of West Virginia. She studied linguistics and TESOL, taught German, English Grammar and Linguistics at WVU, had the title of M.A. bestowed upon herself and returned to Germany.

In order to further the cultural experience of 'being abroad', she did the next best thing and moved to Munich, where she taught translation and phonetics at LMU and started her dissertation project on strategies and techniques in translation tasks by non-German English students.

The semester of 2007/08 marks her return to familiar pastures. She now teaches in the BM Fachdidaktik and Linguistics and is the new Fachstudienberaterin in Anglistik.