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100 Stunden Deutschland: Orientierungskurs. Politik - Geschichte - Kultur (2017) Ellen Butler, Ondřej Kotas, Martin Sturm, Barbara Sum, Nita Esther Wolf, Helga Würtz Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen ISBN 978-3-12-675229-9 Paper, 144 pages, €12,99 www.klett-sprachen.de
Mitreden: Diskursive Landeskunde für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache. A2-B2 (2016) Eva Hamann, Christine Magosch, Caterina Mempel, Björn Vondran, Rebecca Zabel Edited by Claus Altmayer Stuttgart: Ernst Klett Sprachen ISBN 978-3-12-675267-1 Paper, 136 pages, €19,99 www.klett-sprachen.de
This review focuses on two new publications in the area of cultural studies from Klett publishing house. Looking at the titles of each work, we immediately notice that each book suggests a different approach: The first one, 100 Stunden Deutschland: Orientierungskurs, indicates that it is a guide for the 100-hour long required course for migrants and refugees in Germany, whereas the second book, Mitreden: Diskursive Landeskunde für Deutsch als Fremd- und Zweitsprache, concentrates on active participation and engagement in discourse about and within the German-speaking world.
100 Stunden Deutschland: Orientierungskurs is a textbook whose only goal is to prepare its learners for the "Leben in Deutschland" test; a test that can only be taken after having completed 100 hours of instruction on Landeskunde. The book contains three modules - "Politik in der Demokratie," "Geschichte und Verantwortung," and "Mensch und Gesellschaft" - that each have 22 chapters, and it is primarily concerned with the transmission of dates, facts, and...