"Reading German" is a structured course designed to introduce a wide
variety of users to an independent reading of German texts. Course chapters
focus on the recognition and decoding of progressively complex written
structures, and offer strategies for negotiating more complex texts.Reading German is a structured reading course designed to take a wide
variety of users to an independent reading of authentic German texts. It is
ideally suited for courses in colleges and universities, for students or
specialists in any discipline, and for independent learners. Drawing on recent
research into reading in a foreign language, the course chapters focus on the
recognition and decoding of progressively complex written structures, before
rehearsing a variety of strategies (such as skimming and scanning) for
negotiating longer and more complex texts.; The book has four sections: a 16-chapter reading course; an extensive
reference section containing a specially-designed grammar of written German; a
further exercises section, for further work on recognizing structures; a text
corpus containing 23 texts of various types, with facing English translations.
Grammatical points explained in the reference section are frequently
illustrated using examples located in the text corpus.; The only other resource the user will need is a bilingual dictionary.
Advice on how to use a dictionary is contained in the reference section.
