What the Persian Media Says: A Coursebook is a comprehensive and
stimulating course for intermediate to advanced students of
Persian. Presenting many exercises based on authentic Persian
newspaper texts, the course thoroughly introduces students to the
language of the news in Iran. Real cultural content is featured
throughout and there is a strong focus on enabling students to gain
familiarity with day-to-day modern Persian discourse. Features
include: A wide range of interesting and challenging exercises
presented throughout, including activities designed to both test
students' knowledge in a classroom setting and to search online for
further Persian news resources Usage of authentic texts from the
Iranian media, written for native speakers, with sources including
Ettela'at, Keyhan, Sharq, E'temad, Iran, and Mardomsalari Coverage
of topics highly relevant to modern day Persian society, including
the Arts, divorce, violence, problems of youth, unemployment,
politics and economic issues, enabling cultural engagement and
knowledge of complex expressions and idioms used in the media A
comprehensive bilingual glossary of journalistic and
non-journalistic terminology used in the newspaper texts, provided
at the back of the book for easy access What the Persian Media Says
combines modern and more traditional techniques of language
teaching. With all the newspaper texts and their corresponding
audio files available for free on the Routledge website, students
can read the texts in digital form and listen to the audio while
working on exercises in the book, enabling full and exciting
engagement with the course materials. Written by an experienced
instructor, this will be an invaluable resource for intermediate to
advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Persian. It can
also be used by self-learners and by instructors and students on
intensive courses and summer language programs.
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