German Travel Conversation Course

Author: Zhu Xiaoxue
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: This textbook was approved and published by the former National Education Commission's College Textbook Compilation and Review Committee's German Language Group. Based on theories of pragmatics and communicative language teaching, the course material uses six typical communicative scenarios as teaching content. The teaching sequence is organized around grasping communicative scenarios, practicing language expressions, and achieving free expression, thereby cultivating learners' independent and autonomous work skills. This feature of the textbook demonstrates strong timelessness and geographical flexibility. Therefore, no major changes were made in this revised edition in this regard. The changes in this revised edition compared to the first edition are as follows: structurally, answers are no longer placed immediately after each lesson but are compiled as a whole at the end of the book. Reference articles for analysis, criticism, and research included in the exercises are now placed at the end of the corresponding lessons instead of at the back of the book; in terms of layout, the illustrations in the book have been technically processed to improve their quality; in terms of text, the German new orthography has been adopted, and printing errors in the first edition have been corrected; in terms of layout, a detailed table of contents has been added to facilitate users in finding the desired sections; in terms of content, a "Guide to Key Tourist Attractions in Beijing" has been added at the end of the book, and Chinese explanations or Pinyin annotations have been added after some concepts. Some content is also accompanied by illustrations to achieve a vivid and intuitive effect.