Deutsch: Na klar!: An Introductory German Course, 6/e
Robert Di Donato,
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio) Monica D. Clyde Jacqueline Vansant,
University of Michigan (Dearborn)
ISBN: 0073386332 Copyright year: 2012
About the Authors
Robert Di Donato is Professor of German Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. He is the chief academic and series developer of Fokus Deutsch, a telecourse with accompanying texts and materials for teaching and learning German produced by WGBH Television and the Annenberg Foundation and coauthor of The Big Yellow Book of German Verbs. He has also edited two volumes for the Central States Conference, written articles about language teaching methodology, and has given numerous keynote speeches, workshops, and presentations on teaching methods and teacher education both in the United States and abroad. He has won a number of awards for his work in language teaching and learning including the Outstanding German Educator Award from the American Association of Teachers of German (AATG) and the Florence Steiner Award for Leadership in Foreign Language Education from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). He was national president of AATG from 1986–1987. Presently he is serving as acting chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Miami University.Monica D. Clyde is a native of Düsseldorf. She received her Ph.D. in German literature from the University of California at Berkeley. She has taught German language and literature at Mills College, Cañada College, the Defense Language Institute, and the College of San Mateo. She was Director of Faculty Development and Scholarship at Saint Mary’s College of California until her retirement in 2003. She coauthored Texte und Kontexte and was a contributor to Mosaik: Deutsche Kultur und Literatur, Third Edition, both intermediate college-level German textbooks. Her scholarly work continues with a focus on the history of Germans who came to the San Francisco area from the time of the Gold Rush up to World War I.Jacqueline Vansant, who received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin with a dissertation on Austrian women writers, is Professor of German at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her particular interest in language pedagogy lies in reading and reading strategies. She has written widely on contemporary Austrian literature and culture, served as coeditor of Modern Austrian Literature from 2000–2005, and is presently working on a book entitled Austria: Made in Hollywood.
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