German Sentence Builders - A Lexicogrammar approach - Second Edition

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>German Sentence Builders</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- SECOND EDITION - </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 50 years of extensive classroom experience between the three both in the UK and internationally. This 'no-frills' book contains 19 units of work on very popular themes jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building reading translation retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Each unit includes:</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>2) A set of vocabulary building activities;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling lexical retrieval syntax editing and communication of meaning.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Based on the </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.)</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over. This occurs throughout each unit of work as well as in smaller grammar vocabulary and question-skills micro-units located at regular intervals in the book which aim at reinforcing the understanding and retention of the target grammar vocabulary and question patterns.</span></p>