Target Audience(Age): Primary School, Middle School
Target Audience(Language): Pre-Intermediate
The K12Standard Chinese series is an international Chinese language gradingtextbook for non-native learners in grades K-12, aiming to enable learners togradually improve their language proficiency in the context of enjoyablestories about modern life in China and traditional Chinese culture. Thetextbook is aligned with the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards forInternational Chinese Language Education and the Frameworkof Reference for Chinese Culture and Society in International Chinese LanguageEducation issued by the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation ofthe Ministry of Education of China. Following the principle of combining “structure-function-culture”,this set of textbooks is student-centred and language use-oriented, andcombines the “5Cs” goals (Communication, Culture, Comparison, Community andConnection) put forward by the American Standards for Learning ForeignLanguages in the 21st Century. Designed and written with the concepts of “Chinesecharacters as the foundation, Chinese culture as the body, interest as the basisand grading as the outline”, the textbook follows the laws of second languageacquisition to set contents in a gradual and orderly manner, forming aclosed-loop structure for language and culture teaching.
The K12Standard Chinese series is written according to the new paradigm of “threelevels and nine bands” proposed in the GradingStandards. Combined with the actual needs of K-12 learners, thegrading standard is further refined into “five levels and nine bands”, forminga spiral structure that goes from basic, elementary, intermediate, advanced,and then top, with the nine levels corresponding to the Grading Standards one by one.
This book belongs to the Intermediate Level 3B of this set of teaching materials, which is in line with Level 3 of the Grading Standard, HSK Level 3 and YCT Level 3, and focuses on “Communication”, “Communities” and “Cultures” in the 5Cs. At this stage, learners are able to communicate completely and coherently on topics such as campus life, travelling and tourism, and complete communication tasks such as medical consultations and invitations, as well as grasp cultural contents such as places of interest, food culture and traditional arts, and make cultural comparisons.
About the Author
The K12 Standard Chinese writing team, the editor, consists of a number ofexperts and front-line teachers from the Maple Leaf Education Systems (MLES). MLEScurrently operates 120 schools in 30 cities at home and abroad, includingShenzhen, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Dalian, Wuhan, Zhenjiang, Luoyang,Ordos, Pingdingshan, Yiwu, Jingzhou, Xi’an, Huai’an, Pinghu, Huzhou, Weifang,Yancheng, Haikou, Xiangyang, Luzhou, Jinan, and Hohhot of China, Vancouver,Kamloops, and Brockville of Canada, Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia, and Singapore.With more than 46,000 students and 7,000 Chinese and foreign teaching staff, MLEShas formed a multi-level education system that includes schools for children offoreigners, kindergartens, primary schools, junior high schools and senior highschools. MLES has developed its own internationally accredited high schoolcurriculum with Chinese characteristics, named MLWSC.
Editorial Review
· Aligned with the latest Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education
· Taking Chinese culture as the body, from shallow to deep to integrate by grading
· Divided into five levels and nine bands to ensure progressive and step-by-step improvement
Suggestion
This volume is suitable for overseas teenagers,especially Chinese teenage learners, whose Chinese proficiency is at HSK Level 3,YCT Level 3 and Level 3 of the Grading Standard. Teachers are ableto arrange teaching progress according to students’ learning level.
