Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels

Modern Hebrew for Beginners: A Multimedia Program for Students at the Beginning and Intermediate Levels

by EstherRaizen (Author)

Synopsis

Modern Hebrew for Beginners offers high school, college, and independent-study students a state-of-the-art learning experience. This combination text- and workbook is designed to be used with web-based audio, visual, and interactive materials to give students multiple learning opportunities suited to a variety of learning styles. This allows intense practice of all four language skills: reading, writing, listening comprehension, and conversation. Esther Raizen introduces the basic concepts of Hebrew through a wide variety of written and oral exercises in this text, many of which link to the website's computer tutorials and short original films based on contemporary Israeli life and society. She emphasizes the spoken language, while also paying attention to various aspects of normative grammar, of the written language, and of cultural elements associated with Hebrew. With this variety of materials and the capacity for continuous updating via the website, teachers and students will find this book endlessly adaptable and highly suitable for self-paced training.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01 Jun 2000

ISBN 10: 0292771045
ISBN 13: 9780292771048
Book Overview: This new introductory textbook is far-and-away the most interesting, innovative, and promising development in Hebrew education in America that I have seen... Its strength lies in its integration of multiple modes of presenting Hebrew to the learner... This variety in modes of presentation helps teach students the range of communicative skills they would need to function in everyday life in Hebrew. -- Daniel Lefkowitz, author of Words and Stones: Language and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

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This new introductory textbook is far-and-away the most interesting, innovative, and promising development in Hebrew education that I have seen... Its strength lies in its integration of multiple modes of presenting Hebrew to the learner... This variety in modes of presentation helps teach students the range of communicative skills they would need to function in everyday life in Hebrew. -Daniel Lefkowitz, Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of Virginia
Author Bio
A native of Israel, Esther Raizen is associate dean for research in the College of Liberal Arts and former chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She specializes in Hebrew language pedagogy and has been an early adopter of computer technology for the Hebrew-language classroom and a pioneer in the production of open educational resources for Hebrew-language instruction.