Target Audience(Age): College, Adults
The New Silk Road “Chinese + Vocational Skills” is a series of Chinesetextbooks for specialized and vocational purposes that combine professional andvocational technologies with Chinese as a second language. The textbooks aredeveloped with a view of meeting the basic communication needs of learners ingeneral Chinese environment, and their professional learning needs andworkplace demands as well.
This series adopts a Chinese teaching and textbook compilation modelcombining special language skills and vocational skills training. Starting fromthe basic phonetic knowledge learning and job cognition at the elementarylevel, this series integrates “Chinese + Vocational Skills” into the workingscene dialogues, breaking down the job into various tasks, solving lexical cognitionproblems by means of picture cognition, solving the problem of the mismatchbetween learners’ mastery of Chinese vocabulary and professional skills bymeans of displaying videos, stressing the practicality of skills, and focusingon “learning by doing”.
The series includes the textbooks for six popular majors such as logisticsmanagement, automotive service engineering technology, e-commerce,mechatronics, computer networking, and hotel management, with each majorconsisting of the textbooks at the elementary, intermediate and advancedlevels. Each volume contains 10 units, with each unit consisting of modulessuch as “Phonics/Chinese Character, Texts, Communicative Phrases, PracticalTraining, Summary”.
This volume is the Chinese + Automotive ServiceEngineering Technology (Intermediate).
About the Author
The New Silk Road “Chinese + Vocational Skills” SeriesWriting Committee is composed of experts from the Centre for Language Educationand Cooperation of the Ministry of Education and the Nanjing VocationalUniversity of Industry Technology. The writing committee has realized theorganic integration of “Chinese + Vocational Skills” from the perspective ofinternational Chinese language teaching materials and vocational characteristics.Meanwhile, it has realized that Chinese language teaching provides guaranteefor vocational education and vocational education injects energy into Chineselanguage education, which are complementary to each other. On the basis ofvocational competence standards, the construction of vocational Chineselanguage competence can be promoted in combination with the needs ofenterprises, which can solve the direct needs of local enterprises in thefastest way, build a feasible language development environment that meets theinterests of all parties, and maximize the promotion of both sides to achieveconsensus in language, technology and ideology, thus promoting the constructionof a community with a shared future for mankind.
Editorial Review
1. Language knowledge skills and professionalknowledge skills go hand in hand to meet the demands of current popular and urgently needed jobpositions;
2. It adopts the thematic content organization andtask-based teaching design.
3. Language knowledge and professional knowledgerecur scientifically and efficiently, language skills and professional skillsspiral upward, and the situational stage, semantic framework, and ontologyinput methods cooperate with each other;
4. Professional knowledge and skills are visualized,using a lot of pictures and videos;
5. It addresses the mismatch between the difficultyof language learning and that of mastering skills by supplementing withpractical videos and practical training.
Suggestion
To whom: This series is suitable for long-term or short-term students who come to China to learn Chinese and advanced skills with zero language basis and zero skill basis, as well as for foreign students in overseas Chinese-invested enterprises.
