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Target Audience(Age): College, Adults
Advanced Chinese Audiovisual-Speaking Course is a multi-dimensional comprehensivelanguage teaching material prepared to meet the urgent demand for intermediateand advanced Chinese audiovisual-speaking materials for front line teaching. Itcan be used in intermediate and advanced audiovisual-speaking courses, as wellas in intermediate and advanced integrated courses, speaking courses, listeningcourses and other courses as teaching materials.
Thecourse is divided into two volumes, each based on a popular Chinese TV dramaseries - “ALittle Reunion” and “Twenty Your Life On”. The content isbasically arranged in the order of the episodes, so that learners can graduallybecome familiar with the characters and events in the dramas and improve theircomprehensive language skills. The courses truly reflect the latest situationof China. Moreover, the videos are dialogues of different scenes of thecharacters, which are realistic and natural, with a moderate speed of speechand rhythmic intonation. The main dialogue is in Mandarin, with a small amountof slang and colloquialisms, and contains all kinds of commonly used sentences,which can meet the learners’ different communicative needs.
This volume is
Advanced ChineseAudiovisual-Speaking Course (Twenty Your Life On), which has 4 major topics: workplace jobs, lifeconflicts, personal feelings and life decisions. Each topic contains 2 lessons, with a total of 8lessons. Each lesson contains seven parts: learning objectives, warm-up,pre-class preparation, video and text learning, post-class investigation,comprehensive exercises and activities, and cultural connections, with eachlesson equipped with teaching materials and each exercise provided with QRcodes, which are convenient for learners to scan the code to watch the video atany time, thus helping learners to make use of the fragmented time to watch theteaching resources repeatedly, and carry out pre-class preparation andpost-class review. The appendix of the textbook contains the vocabulary list,video texts, reference answers to exercises, etc., making it easy for learnersto retrieve and understand the content of the videos and text information.
About the Author
Chen Tianxu, Ph.D. of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, is now anassociate professor and the head of the international undergraduate departmentof the College of International Education, Minzu University of China, as wellas the deputy director of the Open Research Center for Language Teaching,Cognition and Acquisition. Professor Chen has been engaged in internationalChinese language education for many years, and has taught Chinese language inmany universities at home and abroad, including Beijing Language and CultureUniversity, University of South Carolina, and Carnegie Mellon University. Hehas published more than 20 research papers in domestic and internationaljournals, and has participated in the compilation of five textbooks on Chineseas a foreign language, including the textbook
Watching the Movie andLearning Chinese - Shower, College Chinese: Listening and Speaking (Volume 2), and
Special Chinese for Pre-school in Xinjiang of BLCUP.
Editorial Review
This is one of the greatest textbooks among international Chinese audiovisualteaching materials in recent years - a unique set of advanced Chineseaudiovisual-speaking teaching materials that lead learners to listen, watch andfeel in real scenes, and to appreciate the real social landscape of China whilelearning.
1.The video materials are both authentic and contemporary.
The video materials of this textbook are extracted from the popular TV dramas inrecent years. Learners can really feel the reality of Chinese society invarious aspects through two popular TV dramas (urban family education TV drama“A Little Reunion” and urban growth inspirational TV drama “Twenty Your LifeOn”) in recent years, and learn about the latest situation in China, which willpromote learners to learn Chinese language and perceive the Chinese culture.
2.The chosen topics are broad and varied.
The textbook is not confined to a single topic. The first volume covers jobhunting, family education, intergenerational concepts and school life, whilethe second book covers workplace jobs, life conflicts, personal feelings, lifedecisions, and many other dimensions, which helps learners perceive adiversified and multi-dimensional image of China.
3.The selected language points are typical and cultural.
This textbook is in line with the
Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards forInternational Chinese Language Education, and selects vocabulary andlanguage points at level 5 and above, and explains words and common languageexpressions with cultural significance. Example sentences provide sufficientcontext to help learners understand and apply the language.
4. The exercises in each section are diverse and discursive.
The textbook is designed with a variety of basic and open exercises ineach teaching section, which fully combines mechanical and communicativeexercises and can effectively help learners to consolidate language knowledge,improve their ability to express and exercise critical thinking skills. SuggestionThis course is suitable for most universities in China whoseclassroom teaching arrangement is 16-18 teaching weeks (32-36 class hours) persemester. Overseas teachers can also freely choose the teaching contents andflexibly arrange the teaching schedule according to the actual needs.
This course is suitable for Chinese learners who meet Level 4 of the Chinese ProficiencyGrading Standards for International Chinese Language Education.
It is recommended to complete one lesson in 4 class hours,including 2 class hours of audio-visual lessons and 2 class hours of activitylessons.
Each lesson is equipped with teaching courseware; QR code isprovided near to each exercise, which is convenient for learners to scan thecode to watch the video at any time, thus helping learners to make use offragmented time to watch the teaching resources repeatedly, and carry out pre-and post-course review; the appendix of the textbooks contains the vocabularylist, video texts, reference answers to exercises, etc., which makes it easyfor learners to retrieve and comprehend the contents of the video and thetextual information.
