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Personalized ENGLISH COACHING FOR INDIVIDUALS AND SMALL GROUPS

LinguaLinkDC offers English language courses, personalized English lessons, U.S. & German culture coaching, intercultural & cross-cultural training, speechwriting, and localization services with a focus on highly personalized one-on-one coaching and tutoring.

I want to empower non-native speakers with English language proficiency, and cultural intelligence to help them succeed. Send an email at office@lingualinkdc.net or find me on LinkedIn here.

 

Marike’s APPROACH

Marike loves teaching and truly motivating her students to achieve their goals by turning my lessons into inspiring and interesting experiences. My approach to grammar and vocabulary training is unique, as I create custom English coaching lessons for each of my clients or small groups. She’s a client-focused, results-based, culturally sensitive expert educator with a high level of competence in creating custom lessons.

Drawing upon diverse language skills and methodologies, she customizes each lesson. As a U.S. country specialist and intercultural communication trainer, she can incorporate cultural competence into sessions as well, combining language and culture to help her clients succeed as effective communicators.

 
 

Academic Experience & Resume

  • M.A. American Studies, English, Political Science (Focus: International Relations, U.S. Foreign & Domestic Policy; Cultural Studies), University of Toronto & University of Bonn; Ph.D. Candidate American Studies, University of Vienna & University of Maryland

  • Diploma in Adult Education

  • Professional English Instructor and Intercultural Communication Trainer

  • Recipient of various academic scholarships

    Travel and Participation Grant “Intersectionality-Paradigms and Challenges” (2009, Intergender Research School in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Stockholm, Sweden in cooperation with the Universities of Blekinge, Goeteborg, Lulea, Oerebro, Uppsala, Malmoe, Sweden and the following international partners: the Finnish, Dutch, and Inter-Nordic Gender Research Schools and the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

2007 Tuition Waiver Stipend/University of Maryland

2007 Sigmund Freud Research Scholarship, City of Vienna, Austria

2007 PhD Scholarship (Joint Study), University of Vienna, Austria

2004 Scholarship awarded by the Interdisciplinary Center for Comparative Studies in the Social Sciences/Vienna/Austria

  • Published Author, “Filmic Healing Scripts. (Re)Negotiating the Trauma Paradigm after 9/11.” Trauma und Film. Ed. Julia Koehne, 2012 Kadmos Berlin.