LANG 202 – Textbook evaluation activity

Choose a beginning or intermediate language textbook for your target language. I recommend that you use the book you taught from in the fall or the one you are using this quarter, but you are not required to use one of those.

Name of textbook: Deutsch: Na klar!
Level 102

1. First look for the presence of the target culture in the textbook...

a. Does the textbook present mostly “Culture” or mostly “culture” or a good balance of both? Give examples.

As far as I noticed the textbook presents more Culture than culture. This might be justified by the fact that it is easier for students with a limited knowledge of a language to understand complex issues or cultural information within a broader background. On the other hand, culture is taught for example in Chapter 1 to explain students in which situations to address someone with “Sie” or “Du”. In Chapter 3 the book presents how to behave in a......

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Title: A Textbook Analysis
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