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Target Audience(Age): College, Adults
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) Intermediate ComprehensiveCourse (I) is a comprehensive textbook of the
DevelopingChinese series, which is applicable for learners who have learned
DevelopingChinese Elementary Comprehensive Course (II) or elementary Chinesetextbooks of comparable level, and are at intermediate level of ChineseLearning. The textbook consists of 14 lessons, each of which consists of fourparts, word study, text introduction, comprehensive notes and comprehensiveexercises. The textbook is rich in content with strong practicality andinterest, the design is simple and practical, which makes it easy to teach andlearn, and the content is resourceful, which expands the opportunities forlearners to learn independently. Furthermore, the textbook focuses oncultivating learners’ ability to understand the rationale for the compositionof Chinese characters and phrases.
About the Author
Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoralsupervisor at the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, RenminUniversity of China. Professor Li is also a member of the National SteeringCommittee for Postgraduate Education of International Chinese LanguageEducation, vice president of the Beijing Language Association, executivedirector of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, andeditorial board member of various journals such as
Chinese Teaching in theWorld and
Applied Linguistics.
Editorial Review(1) The text genres are various, the themesare close to contemporary life, and the choice of topics is universal.Meanwhile, the content involves Chinese culture and national conditions, whiletaking into account the contrast between Chinese and foreign cultures.
(2) The book design focuses on the processof text learning, language learning and comprehensive practice, exactly, theprocess of understanding the content of the text, learning and using thelanguage points and comprehensively improving the language skills, which aimsto gradually cultivate the learners’ ability to communicate in Chinese and tosuccessfully carry out cross-cultural communication.
(3) The teaching materials arecomprehensive and useful, which helps to expand learners’ independent learningopportunities.
(4) The textbook highlights the teaching ofChinese language morphemes and builds a grammar teaching system for Chinesediscourse from characters, sentences to discourses.
Suggestion The textbook consists of 14 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 6 class hours.
