Stationen: Ein Kursbuch für die Mittelstufe - Softcover

Augustyn, Prisca; Euba, Nikolaus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413008801 ISBN 13: 9781413008807

Publisher: Heinle, 2007

Synopsis

Take a tour of the German-speaking world, with STATIONEN: EIN KURSBUCH FÜR DIE MITTELSTUFE, an innovative intermediate German program. Combining engaging cultural topics with authentic readings, this text gives you the basis to develop insight into German life today and proficiency with the language. Each chapter of STATIONEN revolves around a city or region in the German-speaking world, inviting you to make connections and comparisons between chapters, topics, and cultural issues. In addition, the accompanying video component (available on DVD) contains footage of videoblogs from eleven cities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland that complement the text and offer fascinating glimpses of contemporary German culture. These snapshots of everyday life pair interview clips with images of public spaces to move you beyond the realm of ordinary language instruction and into the scenarios and situations that reflect your real-world needs as a developing German speaker.

About this title

About the Author:

Prisca Augustyn is an Associate Professor of German and Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University, where she has been in charge of German since 2002. Prisca teaches courses in German, linguistics, and semiotics. Her interest in how we form subjective models of the world through language informs not only her research in linguistics/semiotics, but finds expression in the development of teaching materials and methods for the classroom. She and her co-author Nikolaus Euba (University of California, Berkeley) recently finished the third edition of Stationen, a textbook for intermediate German.

Selected as the AATG 2013 Post Secondary Outstanding Educator, Nikolaus Euba holds an M.A. degree in "Deutsch als Fremdsprache" from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Before coming to California, he taught and coordinated German courses at Miami University (Ohio) and the University of South Carolina. At Berkeley, he directs the German Language Program and mentors the Graduate Student Instructors who teach language courses. His research interests focus on integrating (literary) texts into foreign language teaching and learning, a topic on which he frequently develops workshops and gives presentations. He is a consultant to the College Board's AP program in German and to the National Evaluation Series (NES). After having directed and taught numerous summer study workshops in Heidelberg, Jena, and Berlin, he now coordinates the language program at FUBiS (Freie Universität Berlin in the Summer). He is a recipient of the Star Award for Excellent Service to the Student Community (1998), of the Mortar Board Excellence in Teaching Award (2001) and of UC Berkeley's Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs (2007).

Review:

"The most attractive aspect of this program is the organization of the chapters--providing a well-rounded chapter offering the students cultural points, historical info on a city in Germany, web-based exercises, video, vocabulary activities, grammar points, reading text and discussion topics."

"I like the diverse topics, the fact that modern themes are addressed that are appealing to our student population. It is also wonderful to see that Austria and Switzerland are also represented in the readings, many of which are authentic."

"Structuring the chapters around cities instead of around topics of general interest (which unfortunately generally don't interest the majority of students very much, especially since they come up over and over again in the same form throughout their education) such as 'environment,' 'family,' 'multiculturalism' etc. provides much greater flexibility for incorporating a range of materials that will appeal to a wide variety of students, while by no means excluding the possibility of addressing the above 'conventional' topics, and indeed making it possible to do so in the more concrete context of a particular city. Furthermore, the 'city' structure means students will be getting concrete, up-to-date information about 12 real cities they may really want to visit."

About this edition

• Publisher: Heinle
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1413008801
• ISBN 13: 9781413008807
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496