Students develop facility for critical thinking and practice developing consistent arguments from more than one perspective. Students develop their comprehension skills in listening and reading by working with the language as it is used in conversations among Germans and in authentic materials created for a German audience. Students can actively incorporate new linguistic material as they formulate their own interpretations in class discussion and oral presentations based on the materials.
Students engage in further research of topics they have defined while working with the materials.
Books on the market provide students with a variety of texts on a single topic, presenting them with more than one perspective and encouraging them to look beyond a single answer to a question. This program provides students with a selection of texts from various different media sources, such as video texts, audio texts, photographs and other illustrative materials, as well as printed texts from newspapers, magazines and literature. The daily life and current issues of people living in the Niederlausitz, an area southeast of Dresden, Germany. Deutsche Welle for permission to use video material. Bayern 3, Letztes Jahr in Deutschland, 1991.