Details
Target Audience(Age): College, Adults
Target Audience(Language): Advanced
Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) is a set of systematic Chinese language teaching materials foradults that embodies the teaching concept of “development” and adopts the modelof “integrating comprehensive language ability cultivation with specializedlanguage skills training”, which can be divides into three levels (elementary,intermediate and advanced) and six series (comprehensive, speaking, listening, reading,writing and elementary reading and writing), with a total of 28 volumes.
Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Advanced Reading Course (II) is a reading textbook ofthe
Developing Chinese series, which is applicable for learners who havestudied the intermediate Chinese courses such as
Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Advanced Comprehensive Course (I) and
Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Advanced Reading Course (I), or those who are at advanced level ofChinese Learning. The textbook has 14 lessons in total, and each lessonconsists of two intensive reading texts, one practical reading text and oneself-challenge text. The reading materials involved are rich in topics,practical in content, varied in practice, and moderate in difficulty, which cancomprehensively improve learners’ reading skill and comprehensive languageskills such as “reading and speaking”, enhance their interest in reading, andimprove their comprehensive reading comprehension ability.
About the Author
Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisorat the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University ofChina. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee forPostgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vicepresident of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the InternationalSociety for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of variousjournals such as
Chinese Teaching in the World and
AppliedLinguistics.
Editorial Review
(1) The selected texts cover the ancientand modern times with modern times focused, ranging from wide topics to tinylife, from science and technology, literature, art and language to life andentertainment, character and hobbies, flowers, birds, insects and fishes.Through reading these selected texts, learners can expand their readinghorizons, enhance their interest in reading, and strengthen their ability tounderstand Chinese in specific contexts.
(2) The reading ability of Chinese languagelearners can be trained in a three-dimensional and connotative way, taking intoaccount the different levels of reading comprehension training for characters,phrases, sentences, phases and discourses, and emphasizing the training ofreading comprehension ability for segments and parts of speech.
(3) With flexible reading methods andtargeted task training, learners can gain real reading experience in the targetlanguage, enrich reading skills, improve reading comprehension ability, andcontinuously enhance the effectiveness of reading and sense of achievement.
(4) Using authentic, practical andencyclopedic language materials and the “small steps, quick walk” readingrhythm, learners are guided to work on the understanding of the text, tounderstand the content of the text comprehensively and accurately, and tocontinuously improve their ability to interpret various Chinese texts.
Suggestion
The textbook consists of 14 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours.
