- Hardcover: 576 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education; 6 edition (1 Feb 2008)
- Language German
- ISBN-10: 0073535338
- ISBN-13: 978-0073535333
- Product Dimensions: 28.3 x 22.8 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,037,405 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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Colorized line art incorporated within vocabulary displays that begin each chapter.
The new edition incorporates the new German spelling system, along with an appendix of common words with alternate spellings from the old spelling system.
All of the audio programs are now on CD as well as cassette.
A newly conceived cultural section encompasses the popular Kulturprojekt with many revised Porträt boxes and an expanded lesson-ending Videoecke that includes viewing tips and activities.
The new video includes interviews with native speakers, with interview questions based on the Interview activities in the main text, along with authentic segments from German television (ZDF).
Website includes additional resources for teachers and students, including on-line activities and numerous live links to sites of interest in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Extensively revised testing program now includes mid-term and final exams for both the quarter and semester systems.
Newly enhanced CD-ROM program, provides form-focused vocabulary and structural activities, as well as a writing and video component.
At the core of Kontakte are lively, high-interest, personalized activities that have students talk about themselves and their experiences as a segue into learning about the German-speaking world.
In keeping with the Natural Approach, emphasis is placed on developing reading skills. Cultural and literary readings appear throughout each chapter and have been written or selected for beginning German students.
Clear and concise grammar explanations, found in the purple pages at the end of each chapter, provide students with the essentials for communicating in German.
Grammar explanations include marginal summary notes for students for quick review and reference.
Listening comprehension audio program accompanies text and includes dialogues and poetry.
Instructor's Manual contains a detailed walk-through of the first three chapters of the book.
Ample opportunities for practicing structures and vocabulary are found in the main text and the coordinated workbook/laboratory manual. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The new edition incorporates the new German spelling system, along with an appendix of common words with alternate spellings from the old spelling system.
All of the audio programs are now on CD as well as cassette.
A newly conceived cultural section encompasses the popular Kulturprojekt with many revised Porträt boxes and an expanded lesson-ending Videoecke that includes viewing tips and activities.
The new video includes interviews with native speakers, with interview questions based on the Interview activities in the main text, along with authentic segments from German television (ZDF).
Website includes additional resources for teachers and students, including on-line activities and numerous live links to sites of interest in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Extensively revised testing program now includes mid-term and final exams for both the quarter and semester systems.
Newly enhanced CD-ROM program, provides form-focused vocabulary and structural activities, as well as a writing and video component.
At the core of Kontakte are lively, high-interest, personalized activities that have students talk about themselves and their experiences as a segue into learning about the German-speaking world.
In keeping with the Natural Approach, emphasis is placed on developing reading skills. Cultural and literary readings appear throughout each chapter and have been written or selected for beginning German students.
Clear and concise grammar explanations, found in the purple pages at the end of each chapter, provide students with the essentials for communicating in German.
Grammar explanations include marginal summary notes for students for quick review and reference.
Listening comprehension audio program accompanies text and includes dialogues and poetry.
Instructor's Manual contains a detailed walk-through of the first three chapters of the book.
Ample opportunities for practicing structures and vocabulary are found in the main text and the coordinated workbook/laboratory manual. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Kontakte: A Communicative Approach
25 Nov 2000
Format:Hardcover
As a native German, I'm teaching German with this book for the second year at the University level. Neither me nor my students like this book - in fact, I consider it quite bad (I have taught with 3-4 other textbooks before, any of which was much better) : The "approach" is totally scattered, it tries to be so hip, while it's rather gimmicky with all its cute pictures and cartoons. Like a "lets get away from grammar"-kind of badge of honor, the book introduces a minimum of grammer, but in a confusing, incomplete, and at times faulty manner while expecting the student to "know" or understand lots of things that were never properly introduced. The students would be helpless without a teacher to untangle the mess for them. Also, the reading sections and vocabulary are rather inappropriate, containing words that are neither widely used nor easy to pronounce. This book hinders more than it helps the process of learning German in an enjoyable manner. I only use it to a bare minimum, just to stay on course with the units it introduces.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful
good book, but not for self-teaching
28 Nov 1999
Format:Hardcover
I learned first-year German with Kontakte and was generally pleased with it. There is a good amount of cultural context, and the design is lively enough to maintain visual interest.
Do not buy Kontakte a self-teaching text or if you want a structural approach to language acquisition. For Kontakte to work at all, you absolutely must have a German speaker to lead you through speaking and conversation.
21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
excellent for communicative, in-class learning
30 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
I'm a native speaker of German and have taught first year German with this book - I love it, and so did my students. I think the communicative approach works great, the book offers a multitude of topics for interaction and communication. It explains the basics of grammar and allows the student to learn by using the language, rather than by memorizing rules. It is, as I mentioned, a book for beginners (first year) and not appropriate for any other level, and it is a book to be used in a class setting, not for self studies. It will not work for other learning situations, but there are other books for those settings. I have learned Spanish with the "Dos Mundos" book from the same series and with the same approach and found it the most effective language learning I have ever experienced. Used in a classroom applying a "natural approach" to language learning, this book is wonderful and an extremely effective way of starting with a new language!
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