The Native Speaker Teaching Assistant Program
Every academic year the Modern Languages and Cultures Department invites a French, Spanish, and German speaker to live and work with us at Albion College. Native Speaker Teaching Assistants (NSTAs) are university students in their early twenties from French, Spanish, or German-speaking countries that spend one academic year at Albion College as a special non-degree student. Native Speakers live along with language students in the I-Space in Dean Hall to encourage and give residents more opportunities to use their target language.
The native speakers are a vital component to the Modern Languages and Cultures Department as well as to the I-Space. Due to their role in the department and in the I-Space, native speakers hold a special position of respect at Albion College. While attending classes, they lead weekly language tutorials to help students work on their conversational skills and grammar. They conduct weekly evening cultural activities in each particular language house in I-Space. They observe and assist professors in the classroom. Their company and leadership are welcomed at the weekly language tables in Dean Hall. NSTAs plan at least one “mega” cultural language event. These events combine fun and social activities with educating the campus about the food, traditions, history and geographic regions associated with their language. In addition, as members of the I-Space Council, native speakers help to decide which campus community events, such as Briton Bash and Homecoming, I-Space will participate in and help to organize and rally support for it.
For more information about the Native Speaker Teaching Assistant Program, please contact for French, Dr. Emmanuel Yewah ([email protected]), for German, Dr. Perry Myers ([email protected]), and for Spanish, Dr. Kalen Oswald ([email protected]).
2024 - 2025 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
Ecuador: Aly Chalán Pineda
Peru: Amoy Chang
France: Alix Fabre
Germany: Alexandra Fuchs
2023 - 2024 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
Ecuador: Diego Salazar
France: Nour Alrobiai
Germany: Sagana Murugathas
Peru: Amoy Chang
2022 - 2023 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- France: Nour Alrobiai
- Ecuador: Paulo Yanez-Merchan
- Germany: Oliver Herrle
- Mexico: Irma Osorio-Pinelo
2021 - 2022 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- France: Alexandre Delangle
- Germany: Lena Hertenstein
- Mexico: Samuel Neri Castañeda
- Chile: Camila Moya Delgado
2020 - 2021 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- France: Alexandre Delangle
- Mexico: Samuel Neri Castañeda
2019 - 2020 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- France: Amaury Hutin
- Germany: Laura Walker
- Mexico: Veronica P. Velasco Torres
- Spain: Irene Gonzalez Blazquez
2018 - 2019 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Antoine Faure
- Costa Rican: Keylin Córdoba Molina
- German: Viktoria Janzen
- Spanish: Fabiola Nieto Tapiador
2017 - 2018 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Radouane Ziani
- Spanish: Nuria Cerón Pimpinela
- Spanish: Mariela Jimenez Chaves
- German: Kevin J. McDonald
2016 - 2017 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Naomi Bonté
- Spanish: Blanca Estepa
- Spanish: Jaqueline Ramirez
- German: Anna Lisa
2015 - 2016 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Marie Chambon
- Spanish: Blanca Estepa Bernabeu
- Spanish: Laura Cristina Murillo-Quesada
- German: Lisa Schmidtfall
2014 - 2015 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Clementine Boyer
- Spanish: Meztli Ziara Cammacho Barreto
- Spanish: Cristina Ybarra Garcia
- German: Anna Rogovska
2013 - 2014 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- French: Bouchra Ben Hami
- Spanish: Luis Cádenas López
- Spanish: Marisol Mora Villar
- German: Anna Schwabe
2012 - 2013 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- German: Judith Gerards
- Japanese: Mai Maehara
- French: Jennifer Perenchio
- Spanish: Maria Pérez-Huete
- Spanish: Zamia Leticia Rodriguez Meneses
2011 - 2012 Native Speaker Teaching Assistants
- Spanish: Mario Carillo Anguiano
- French: Morgane Chatagner
- Spanish: Perla Garcia Frutis
- Japanese: Miku Hamakawa
- German: Stefan Keutgen
2009 - 2010 Native Speakers
- Catherine Ehm
- Fanny Aponte Sliva
- Paul Vargas
- Thomas Boykin