Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students - Softcover

Kramer, Christina E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0299161749 ISBN 13: 9780299161743

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

This comprehensive teaching grammar of standard Macedonian for English speakers aims to provide in one year of intensive study a basic knowledge of the Macedonian language and an introduction to Macedonian life, culture, history and literature. The text integrates langauge learning with culture; provides basic grammar and vocabulary; includes lively dialogues of Macedonian families in Toronto, Canada and in Skopje; and contains readings from Macedonian literature, folklore, poetry and history.

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About the Author

Christina E. Kramer is associate professor of Slavic languages at the University of Toronto. She is the author of "Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students" and "Analytic Modality in Macedonian" and the co-editor of "Language Contact--Language Conflict."Grace E. Fielder is professor of Balkan and South Slavic linguistics in the Russian and Slavic Department at the University of Arizona, as well as a faculty member of the Second Language Acquisition and Teaching Ph.D. program. She is the author of "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Verbal Categories."Liljana Mitkovska is an EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teacher at the Centre for Foreign Languages in Skopje, Macedonia. She also teaches Macedonian to foreigners and is co-author of the book "Zboruvate li makedonski?" ("Do You Speak Macedonian?"), a beginner's course for Macedonian as a foreign language.Phillip Hammonds is a second language acquisition specialist and systems programmer, whose main interest is the computer modeling of natural language systems. He developed the instructional template for the CDs, was a consultant on the design of exercises, and was the principal programmer."

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0299161749
• ISBN 13: 9780299161743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 476