Workbook/Laboratory Manual for Kontakte (GERMAN) - Softcover

Tschirner, Erwin; Nikolai, Brigitte; Terrell, Tracy D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1259692647 ISBN 13: 9781259692642

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2016

Synopsis

This combined workbook and laboratory manual contains both acquisition activities and practice exercises for use outside the classroom. The Answer Key at the end of the workbook/lab manual (Arbeitsbuch) allows students to correct many of the activities themselves. The workbook/lab manual (Arbeitsbuch) activities and the related audio recordings are also accessible in Connect German which also features an audio/video chat tool.

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About the Authors

(Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley) is Gerhard Helbig Professor of German as a Foreign Language and Applied Linguistics at the University of Leipzig and President of the Institute for Test Research and Test Development in Leipzig, Germany. Before joining the University of Leipzig, he taught at the University of Iowa, Iowa City (1990-1998) and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (19881990). His main research areas are: second language acquisition, corpus linguistics, language testing and assessment, and language policy. He is (co-) author of over 150 books, book chapters, and journal articles. He has extensive experience in test research and development for all language modalities (speaking, listening, writing, and reading). He has been a certified ACTFL OPI tester since 1989 and tester trainer since 1993. He has been a major contributor to the internationalization efforts of the University of Leipzig, establishing and directing joint BA, MA, and Ph.D. programs with universities in the Netherlands, Mexico, Brazil, and the U.S.

(First and Second Staatsexamen, Gï¿ttingen and Fulda) is Oberstudienrï¿tin (German, English, Physical Education) at the Werner-von-Siemens Gymnasium in Bad Harzburg, Germany. She taught German at all levels of instruction at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, and she was a Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. She is co-author of Assoziationen: Deutsch fï¿r die Mittelstufe and the series Lextra Englisch Grund- und Aufbauwortschatz nach Themen. Her main interests are: the role of vocabulary in language learning, reading strategies, and the role of art in language teaching. She has been a certified ACTFL OPI tester since 1989.

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 Terrells publications on second-language acquisition are widely known in the United States and abroad.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1259692647
• ISBN 13: 9781259692642
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352