• Opinion Paper
  • July 13, 2023
  • Open access

The intercultural potential of the textbook: Bazina N. V., Ionova A. M., Kashenkova I. S. German? It is really cool! – Deutsch? Ist echt cool!: Levels A1-A2 / ed. by N. N. Saklakova; MGIMO University, Department of the German Language. Moscow: MGIMO-University, 2019: Book review

Abstract

The book review is devoted to the analysis of the textbook “German? It is really cool! – Deutsch? Ist echt cool!” by N. V. Bazina, A. M. Ionova, I. S. Kashenkova, intended for teaching German as the second or third foreign language after English. The paper reveals the intercultural potential of the textbook, which consists in the information of a cultural and country-specific nature presented in the textbook, as well as tasks based on it in which the authors invite students to compare and contrast this information with the realities of their native culture.

Author information

Olga Sergeevna Khosainova

PhD

MGIMO University, Moscow

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Publication history

  • Received: April 3, 2023.
  • Published: July 13, 2023.

Keywords

  • обучение немецкому языку как второму иностранному
  • обучение немецкому языку как третьему иностранному
  • учебное пособие
  • научная рецензия
  • межкультурный потенциал пособия
  • teaching German as the second foreign language
  • teaching German as the third foreign language
  • textbook
  • book review
  • intercultural potential of a textbook

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