Staff

Svenja Erich

Exams & Assessment Coordinator

Email: s.erich@city.ac.uk

Overview

Svenja is the co-ordinator for exams and assessment in the Centre for Language Studies at City. She holds a MA in Slavic Studies from the Free University of Berlin in Germany.

She also studied Russian as a foreign language at the University of St. Petersburg and the Institute for Railway Engineering in Moscow.
 
She has been trained as a language tutor and holds a Cambridge Certificate of Teaching German to Adults.
 
Svenja has worked at City as a Visiting Lecturer since 1998 and has been in charge of the examination and assessment process since 2009.

She organises the end-of-year examinations as well as the re-sits. She provides administrative and student support for the LSP and LGP classes in French, German and Spanish and arranges the annual Language Fair in fresher's week every September.

Svenja is a lecturer on the German for Business and German for Media courses within the Specific Purposes Programme. She has also taught on the University's language evening programme.

Research interests

Her research interests are primarily the formal and informal assessment of foreign languages based on the linguistic skills they cover, such as listening, speaking or writing.