Iris Eisenbach

English for Materials Science and Engineering

Iris Eisenbach

English for Materials Science and Engineering

Exercises, Grammar, Case Studies

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Iris Eisenbach has extensive experience in teaching all levels of English to speakers of other languages and for a wide range of educational and professional purposes. The author graduated in English and French from the University of Mainz and from the Teacher Training College (Studienseminar) in Wiesbaden, (both Germany) with the Second State Examination. After teaching foreign languages to students at different levels for some years, she got tenure as a civil servant (Oberstudienrätin). Iris Eisenbach has spent the past 20 years concentrating on teaching English to students in university settings. Presently she is working as a university language instructor at the English and German Departments of the Language Center of the University of Stuttgart, Germany.

1st Edition 2011

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