Kontakte: A Communicative Approach Student Prepack with Bind-In card - Hardcover

Terrell, Tracy; Tschirner, Erwin; Nikolai, Brigitte

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072956437 ISBN 13: 9780072956436

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages, 2004

Synopsis

This best-selling German text is based on and inspired by the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. With it, students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills as well as cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning, rather than as an end in itself. The abundance of interesting activities and readings in Kontakte ensure that students are exposed to rich language input, critical to language acquisition.

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About the Authors

Tracy D. Terrell (late) Received his Ph.D. in Spanish linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the areas of Spanish dialectology, specializing in the sociolinguistics of Caribbean Spanish. Professor Terrell’s publications on second language acquisition and on the Natural Approach are widely known in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Erwin Tschirner received his M.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He is Professor of German as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics at the Herder Institute of the University of Leipzig, Germany, and Adjunct Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona. He is an internationally recognized authority on foreign language learning, methodology, testing, and materials design, including multimedia materials, and has taught in universities in the United States, Cuba, and Germany. He has lectured and consulted in North America, Europe, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Professor Tschirner is coauthor of Kontakte: A Communicative Approach and Assoziationen: Deutsch für die Mittelstufe and has published numerous articles, book chapters, books, and edited volumes in the field of foreign language teaching and learning. He has been a tester and tester trainer for the ACTFL Oral Proficiency Interview since 1989 and 1993, respectively.

School affiliation was listed as the University of Iowa---Iowa City. School status cleared 5/27/99.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072956437
• ISBN 13: 9780072956436
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 576