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Text linguistics can contribute to solving central problems in German language teaching by focusing on understanding processes and communication. This volume connects linguistic concepts with questions of literature and language didactics and emphasizes the following areas: text coherence as an essential criterion for creating and understanding texts, genre competence as a communicative and social skill, specific school-related text types, text comprehension and text production from linguistic and didactic perspectives, literary understanding and text linguistics as a bridge between language and literary studies, and text linguistic methods and concepts that can be helpful for teaching and assessing text competence. Memorable definitions of key terms and tasks facilitate understanding.