This best-selling German text is based on 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 an end in itself.  In the Natural Approach, students develop language in stages, with the comprehension stage preceding the production stage. For that reason, Kontakte focuses first on the receptive skills (listening and reading) before asking students to produce the language (speaking and writing).

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

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Nikolai, Brigitte

Terrell, Tracy D.

Tschirner, Erwin P.

Words, Language & Grammar

Mcgraw-Hill College

This introductory German text emphasizes communicative proficiency. The method, called the natural approach, stresses the use of activities in a natural and spontaneous classroom atmosphere. Grammar explanations and exercises are aids to learning only, not the main part of the text. The materials are also comprehension-based: comprehension (listening to and reading German) is viewed as a prerequisite to using German (speaking and writing). This is the German equivalent of the Spanish text, "Dos Mundos".

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (English and German Edition)

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

This best-selling German text is based on 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 an end in itself. In the Natural Approach, students develop language in stages, with the comprehension stage preceding the production stage. For that reason, Kontakte focuses first on the receptive skills (listening and reading) before asking students to produce the language (speaking and writing).

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio CD)

Politics & Social Sciences

Tschirner, Erwin

Terrell,Tracy

Social Sciences

McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages

This best-selling German text is based on 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 an end in itself. In the Natural Approach, students develop language in stages, with the comprehension stage preceding the production stage. For that reason, Kontakte focuses first on the receptive skills (listening and reading) before asking students to produce the language (speaking and writing).

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio Cassette)

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

About the Author\nTracy 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.\nDr. 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.\nSchool affiliation was listed as the University of Iowa---Iowa City. School status cleared 5/27/99.

Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

Student CD-ROM (pre-pack) to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

This best-selling German text is based on and inspired by the Natural Approach, pioneered by Tracy D. Terrell. With it, students learn German through communicative contexts with an emphasis on the four skills as well as cultural competence, with grammar functioning as an aid to language learning, rather than as an end in itself. The abundance of interesting activities and readings in Kontakte ensure that students are exposed to rich language input, critical to language acquisition.

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach Student Prepack with Bind-In card

This seven-hour program, corresponding to the Arbeitsbuch and available free of charge on the Online Learning Center or for purchase on audio CDs, contains pronunciation practice and listening comprehension texts. It also includes the dialogues and narration series from the main text.

Audio CD Program to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (English and German Edition)

Titled Arbeitsbuch, this workbook is a complete manual for further practice and acquisition of the four skills and cultural competence.

Studying & Workbooks

McGraw=Hill

Your students are changing. Technology is changing. The idea of the classroom is changing. Now, the way your students learn German is changing as well. In preparation for this edition of Kontakte, we conducted extensive research, employing a wide array of research tools including surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies to identify the key goals and challenges of the introductory German course. Not surprisingly, communication and cultural competence are among the top goals of the majority of instructors, who are facing the challenges of fewer contact hours, budget cuts, and new course formats that make these goals difficult to achieve. The Seventh Edition of Kontakte continues to offer a truly communicative approach that supports functional proficiency while responding to these changing needs in new and exciting ways. As a direct result of our research, we created Connect German (www.connectgerman.com), a powerful online learning platform that includes the ebook, the online Arbeitsbuch, an audio/video chat feature, and a brand-new video filmed in Leipzig, thereby offering a flexible solution for the evolving introductory German landscape. Enhanced by these powerful new digital tools, the Seventh Edition of Kontakte does the following: 
<li>Engages students in authentic culture and inspires them to communicate with confidence by providing them with the natural contexts they need to develop their language skills</li> <li>Provides tools for flexibility and easy course administration </li>
<li>Achieves consistent results across the different course formats offered: face-to-face, hybrid, and online.</li> *Connect German, including but not limited to the workbook/lab manual, the video program, and chat tools, is sold separately and does not come automatically with the purchase of the textbook.

Kontakte

English as a Second Language

McGraw–Hill Education

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Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (English and German Edition)

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio CD)

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio Cassette)

Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

Student CD-ROM (pre-pack) to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach Student Prepack with Bind-In card

Audio CD Program to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (English and German Edition)

Workbook/Laboratory Manual to accompany Kontakte: A Communicative Approach

Kontakte