Sprachschule Mother Tongue

Mag.a. Sarina Kriechbaum, M.A.

I have always been fascinated by language and different cultures. It began
with my many travels as a youth where I was able to experience the lives of
people very different than myself. At the age of sixteen, my family relocated to
Canada where I was introduced to North American culture and the English
language. Having learned English in Austria, I found my skills were lacking
and in need of fine tuning. I felt as though the classes I had taken previously
had given me a strong base of grammar with little practical application of
speech. The benefit, if you see it that way, of full immersion into a language
is that you have very little choice other than learning the language. That is
where my journey truly began on the path of developing the methods which I
employ in my everyday teaching.

                                                   EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Washington, USA
2 years in the Ph.D. program at the Department of German Studies,
2003-2005.
I-to-I UK
Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language, June 2003
UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, Fayetteville, AR
Master of Arts, German Studies, graduation May 2003
KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY GRAZ, Austria
Mag.phil., American Studies and Communication, graduation June 2000
SEATTLE UNIVERSITY, SEATTLE, USA
Exchange students, American Studies, 1997-98
KARL-FRANZENS-UNIVERSITY GRAZ, Austria
B.A., Department for Translation, German-Englisch, 1991-1994.
BARRHEAD HIGH SCHOOL, ALBERTA, CANADA, 1987-88

                                     TEACHING EXPERIENCE

since 2009    English lecturer at Campus 02

since 2007     self-employed language trainer and owner of Mother Tongue

2005-2008     German and English trainer for adults at „Deutsch in Graz“
  and Bfi

2003-2005     Teaching Assistant at the University of Washington, Seattle

2001-2003     Teaching Assistant at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2002                German trainer at „Deutsch in Graz“, Austria

1999-2001     Tutoring German and English at tutoring centers in Graz

2000                CEF Graz, Austria, English trainer, intensive courses

2000-2001     Englisch teacher at the International Center for Languages at
  the Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria

1999-2001     English trainer at WIFI Graz