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Target Audience(Age): College, Adults
“Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series” serves as abridge for international students to switch from basic Chinese learning tobusiness and finance majors, and also a good medium for advanced students ofChinese and foreign practitioners to further improve their comprehensiveChinese application ability according to their actual work needs.
This series consists of 7 books:
Chinese for Commerce:Comprehensive Course (1 & 2),
Chinese for Finance:Comprehensive Course (1 & 2),
Chinese for Commerce:Listening and Speaking,
Chinese for Commerce: Writing and
Chinesefor Commerce: Culture, covering common topics in the fields of business andfinance.
The textbook strives to make the top-level goal of “integratingknowledge, ability and quality” concrete and put into practice, and make theoutline project, teaching content and style design reflect the trainingrequirements of multiple knowledge abilities and quality indicators. In termsof knowledge, this book emphasizes business Chinese and economic and tradeexpertise, while in terms of ability, emphasis is placed on business Chineselistening, speaking, reading and writing, comprehensive ability to use Chineseto deal with business issues and cross-cultural communication ability. Inaddition, it also helps to cultivate teamwork spirit and international vision.
The
Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking Course in the seriesbelongs to the Chinese language teaching materials for the training ofspecialized skills (listening and speaking) for special purposes (commerce).The book consists of 10 sections, each of which is centered on a single topic, covering common businesscommunication activities such as socio-economic, commercial and financialaffairs, and trade transactions. The content of each section is carefullydesigned and combined in terms of topic design, text writing and abilitycultivation, accompanying with the
Chinese for Commerce: ComprehensiveCourse. With the overall idea of “Understanding and Analyzing - Classifyingand Summarizing - Free Expressing”, the book assists students in learningcommerce Chinese, forming business thinking patterns and improving businesscommunication skills through the presentation of real cases and the simulationof real-life scenarios.
About the Author
Zhai Yijiang（Editor-in-Chief
） is anassociate professor and Master candidates’ supervisor of the School ofHumanities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and was the Chinese director ofthe Confucius Institute at Heidelberg University in Germany. His main researchfocuses on teaching Chinese to speakers of other languages and comparativeChinese characterology. He has published textbooks such as the
A 21stCentury Course of Chinese as a Foreign Language.
Duan Mo (Deputy Editor-in-Chief)
isa PhD in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, and teacher at the School ofHumanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She has been teaching businessChinese courses for a long time and has won the second prize of school-levelteaching competition and the first prize of college-level teaching competition.She has presided over four school-level teaching and research projects and oneschool-level teaching material project, and has published many papers onbusiness Chinese teaching and task-based teaching.
Xu Xinyan (editor of this volume) is a teacher ofthe International Chinese Education Center at the School of Humanities,Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and has visited Georgia Institute of Technologyfor one year. Her research mainly focuses on the methods of teaching Chinese asa foreign language and Chinese teaching for commerce. She has edited andco-edited
New Horizon-College Chinese Tutorial 4,
IntermediateChinese II,
Approaching Chinese - Advanced Writing, and the threevolumes of the graded reader
Reading China Level II .
Editorial Review
As the special skills teaching material of “Step into Practice:Chinese for Economics Series”,
Chinese for Commerce: Listening and Speaking Course continues the teaching objective of “ability cultivation as the core”, and isused in conjunction with
Chinese for Commerce: Comprehensive Course and
Chinesefor Commerce: Writing in terms of topic setting, content arrangement, andability point design and training, so as to achieve the goal of “integratingknowledge, ability and quality”.
This book adopts the case-based teaching method, focusing ontraining listening and speaking skills in specific situations, using simulatedreal corpus, scenarios and roles to present specific business communicationactivities, which facilitates learners to understand, memorize and master therelevant words and professional knowledge, and to gradually form professional habitsand patterns of thinking in business communication. Business cases arepresented in the form of “listening”, while the topic of “speaking” isconsistent with “listening”, and the content is related and further extended.On the basis of input serving output, the input and output training arecombined into a more practical “comprehensive practice”, and the task-centeredteaching concept is adopted to put the training of “ability points” intopractice.
This textbook can effectively cultivate learners’ professionalability in using Chinese for business communication, and can be used either inconjunction with the other volumes in the series, or on its own.
Suggestion
This book can be used as a general Chinese textbookfor commerce majors studying in Chinese, and can be used in conjunction withother sub-volumes in the “Step into Practice: Chinese for Economics Series” (
Chinesefor Commerce: Comprehensive Course,
Chinese Business Culture,
Chinesefor Commerce: Writing).
This book consists of 10 sections, each recommended to be completed in 8-12 class hours.
