Reading German: A Course Book and Reference Grammar - Softcover

Coles, Waltraud

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198700202 ISBN 13: 9780198700203

Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 2006

Synopsis

This comprehensive study aid to reading real German texts provides essentials for both students and specialists who have to develop a reading knowledge of German in order to study their core subject. The book includes further exercises, translation of authentic German texts, and an extensive reference section.

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Review

Very good grammer support for interesting texts. Useful to have key for independant study.

Synopsis

Reading German is a structured reading course designed to take a wide variety of users to an independent reading of authentic German texts. It is ideally suited for courses in colleges and universities, for students or specialists in any discipline, and for independent learners. Drawing on recent research into reading in a foreign language, the course chapters focus on the recognition and decoding of progressively complex written structures, before rehearsing a variety of strategies (such as skimming and scanning) for negotiating longer and more complex texts. The book has four sections: a 16-chapter reading course; an extensive reference section containing a specially-designed grammar of written German; a further exercises section, for further work on recognizing structures; a text corpus containing 23 texts of various types, with facing English translations. Grammatical points explained in the reference section are frequently illustrated using examples located in the text corpus. The only other resource the user will need is a bilingual dictionary. Advice on how to use a dictionary is contained in the reference section.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0198700202
• ISBN 13: 9780198700203
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 392