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Publishers and Materials in Germany

  • Bildung online, the combined Internet website of the leading German educational pubishers:
    www.b-o.de
  • The Cornelsen Verlag offers a comprehensive range of programmes with textbooks and multimedia software. The Cornelsen International programme also contains teaching and learning material for German as a foreign language:
    www.cornelsen.de
  • Duden is a household word. The publishing house of this popular dictionary also provides other standard works of reference:
    www.duden.de
  • The Duden-Verlag also offers advice on all questions relating to the German language. The Duden language advisers can be contacted by telephone (at your own expense), too. Subscriptions are also available to the free newsletter Duden-Sprachberatung language advisor:
    www.duden.de/service/sprachberatung/sprachberatung.html
  • The Hueber-Verlag is a foreign language publishing house supplying instructional material for all areas of German as a foreign language. On the autodidactic side, this house can offer a broad selection of printed material, audio-visual courses and CD-ROMs, and is currently developing an online course:
    www.hueber.de
  • The Klett-Verlagsgruppe is a German schoolbook publishers with branches in 12 other countries. Its programme contains teaching and learning material, magazines and distance learning courses for German as a foreign language:
    www.klett.de
  • The language programme of the Langenscheidt-Verlagsgruppe includes dictionaries, teaching material and autodidactic materials. The Verlagsgruppe has sales centres world-wide:
    www.langenscheidt.de
  • The Eilers & Schünemann-Verlag publishes the educational journal "Presse und Sprache" for German as a foreign language. This contains original articles taken from German daily and weekly newspapers, together with editorial introductions, explanations of terms used, and an exercise section:
    http://www.sprachzeitungen.de/
  • The Dürr & Kessler-Verlag offers textbooks for German as a foreign language for children, teenagers and adults. Its programme also contains material on country studies and specific vocational teaching material:
    www.wolfverlag.de/WV-MainFrame.cfm?site=SmartProducts/SP-Programm-DuerrKessler.cfm 
  • The Goethe-Institut develops material for German as a foreign language. Its range includes teaching material containing tasks and exercise sections, material for country studies, for further training, media- and computer-aided supplementary material, specialist journals, and much else. This material may also be ordered online:
    www.goethe.de/dll/mat/deindex.htm
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DAAD Glossary

Semester

The academic year in Germany is generally divided into two semesters rather than three terms, such as is generally the case in the UK and other countries. German universities generally have a winter semester that runs from October to March and a summer semester that runs from April to September. A semester includes both the period when courses and lectures are held (Vorlesungszeit) and the time without lectures (recess) in which students can revise and prepare (Vorlesungsfreiezeit).

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Date: 2008-12-04