- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages; 6 edition (Jan 8 2008)
- Language: German
- ISBN-10: 0073535338
- ISBN-13: 978-0073535333
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 22.8 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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This best-selling German text is based on and inspired by the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. Students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills and cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning and not as an end in itself. The abundance of interesting personalized activities and a wide variety of authentic and author-written readings in Kontakte ensure that students are exposed to rich language input, critical to language acquisition. A full range of supplements, including video, audio and interactive online materials, provide multiple opportunities to practice newly acquired vocabulary and grammar and further refine developing language skills.
About the Author
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.
Tracy D. Terrell (late) received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the area of Spanish dialectology. Professor Terrell’s publications on second-language acquisition are widely known in the United States and abroad.
School affiliation was listed as the University of Iowa---Iowa City. School status cleared 5/27/99.
Tracy D. Terrell (late) received his Ph.D. in Spanish Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and published extensively in the area of Spanish dialectology. Professor Terrell’s publications on second-language acquisition are widely known in the United States and abroad.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Kontakte --- sehr kool! sehr fun!,
By Tifany Kackmeier (La Jolla, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Hardcover)
Ladywisdom is so right. Kontakte is super-fun. Since I started taking it at UCSD (tres competitive!), I can say WHATEVER I want. I was talking to my girlfriend Uli in German(she's from Deutschland, but isn't a jack-booted, Lederhose-wearing, freakazoid like ours truly), and I wanted to get her to play the new Speers album, and it was like so cool --- I said "Spiel das CD auf dem CD-Spieler" --- a she TOTALLY knew what I meant. I love the Blickkontakte interviews, the cute pictures, and I'm learning sooo much. :)
1.0 out of 5 stars
Verleumdung!,
By Horst von Teufelstier (Hyde Park, Chicago) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Hardcover)
I must compliment Ladywisdom on a certain flexibility of judgement seldom found amongst that species of pedant to which she most surely belongs. I would, after all, have expected the sort of lady who would condemn someone's intelligence and learning simply on account of a single flaw of spelling (as if people whose "genius" is far better attested than D.N. Freedman's have not often orthographized in the most unusually and colorful manner) to be most disagreeably affected by Kontakte's rather casual approach to German grammar. It surprises me all the more that someone who has already learned six languages would be so "marvelously" pleased with the training wheels that Terrell and Co. provides for its students. Or that someone who has studied biblical exegesis with a scholar of the ilk of D.N. Freedman (whose Bible Dictionary, Herr Adler --- a good friend of mine, I must add --- has always deeply admired, despite certain theological reservations), and must therefore be aware of a language and literature of deep-reaching otherness (I would say "radical alterity" --- but why expose myself to the charge of thesaurizing) would not find something amiss in a German book whose authors are so deprived of feeling for the language that they purport to teach that they could not even find a German word for the title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Recieving my book,
By Lin (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio CD) (Hardcover)
Aime was extremely quick with my purchase. The book was in great condition (like she said), even though it was used it could have passed for a new book. I would recommend purchasing from her.
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