Language Assistant Profile: Alice Becker
Alice Becker is a Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant and a native German speaker from Austria. She serves as the German language assistant in the fall and winter semester of 2007.
Becker is from a small town in Austria, but she considers herself to be an open-minded person. She comes from an international family. Her mother is Slovakian, and she has relatives all over the world, from Australia to America.
She first began to speak English with an English au pair at age 8 and began learning English in school at age 10.
She has traveled extensively throughout Europe and in the United States and was an au pair in Scotland and France.
In 2003 she spent a term as a student in Limerick, Ireland, where she had the opportunity to teach German as a foreign language at an all-girls secondary school. After this experience, she knew that she had found her vocation.
“I appreciate the good relationship among the colleagues at Alma. I also like the small college atmosphere and the variety of activities.”
In 2005 Becker graduated with majors in German, history and computer science.
After teaching German as a foreign language in Austria for two years, she applied for the Fulbright scholarship. The scholarship allowed her to not only teach at Alma College, but also take courses in English and photography.
As part of her language assistant duties she organizes the ‘Stammtisch,’ a weekly table, a biweekly German Movie night and many other events with the German club.
Eventually, she would like to get her master’s degree and either teach or write textbooks.
“I appreciate the good relationship among the colleagues at Alma,” she says. “I also like the small college atmosphere and the variety of activities,” she says.
