Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio Cassette) (0072342196)

Online Shopping / Books / Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio Cassette)

Big Fat Search

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

Author: Tracy D Terrell, Erwin Tschirner, Brigitte Nikolai
Binding: Audio Cassette
ISBN: 0072342196

$68.58

Kontakte: A Communicative Approach (Student Edition + Listening Comprehension Audio Cassette)
by: Tracy D Terrell, Erwin Tschirner, Brigitte Nikolai

Editorial Review:

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).

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

Random:

Let me put it this way. My University uses this book SO I BOUGHT ANOTHER BOOK to teach me the language and use it in class only. It's horrid. It teaches little grammar at bad times, so our professor made her own lessons and has these very silly story-book style teaching that seems like something being taught to children. I can deal with it in class to test me by, maybe, except that so much of the tests are based on cultural and not language knowledge. I personally don't think my teacher is very good, but... more info

Crap:

This book is a mess, dont even think of taking a class with this book..its so confusing and hard..oh by the way this book is all in german!soo get ready to sit there for hours trying to figure out what each word means..

Es macht Spass!:

I bought this book for an introductory class and I'm finding it well-balanced, though not perfect. Other books I've seen hit you too hard and too fast. This one introduces German basics at a decent clip. Now, I have been to Germany three times and have studied it on my own and taken one brief Conversational German course, but I do find the introduction to grammar and vocabulary pitched just right even for beginners. The disputatious reviews here point to the fact that learning a language is very... more info

Not for self-study:

Kontakte is a wonderful book for introductory German, if it's the assigned book for the class. The book is heavy on conversation and classroom exercises. It is not intended for self-teaching. In the classroom, with a curriculum designed around the book, it is very effective.

Similar Products: