Details
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) Advanced Reading Course (I) is a reading textbook ofthe
Developing Chinese series, which is applicable for learners who havestudied the intermediate Chinese courses such as
Developing Chinese IntermediateComprehensive Course (II) and
Developing Chinese Intermediate ReadingCourse (II), or those who are at advanced level of Chinese Learning. Thetextbook has 14 lessons in total, and each lesson consists of two intensivereading texts, one practical reading text and one self-challenge text. Thereading materials involved are rich in topics, practical in content, varied inpractice, and moderate in difficulty, which can comprehensively improve learners’reading skill and comprehensive language skills such as “reading and speaking”,enhance their interest in reading, and improve their comprehensive readingcomprehension ability.
About the Author
Li Quan, Editor-in-Chief, is a professor and doctoral supervisorat the School of Chinese Studies and Cultural Exchange, Renmin University ofChina. Professor Li is also a member of the National Steering Committee forPostgraduate Education of International Chinese Language Education, vicepresident of the Beijing Language Association, executive director of the InternationalSociety for Chinese Language Teaching, and editorial board member of variousjournals such as
Chinese Teaching in the World and
AppliedLinguistics.
Editorial Review
(1) Through reading a large amount ofwritten materials of different genres and language features, learners canenhance their reading comprehension of all kinds of written materials inChinese, and expand and deepen their understanding of the national conditionsand history and culture of contemporary China.
(2) Chinese learners’ reading comprehensionability can be trained in a three-dimensional and connotative manner, takinginto account the different levels of training including words, phrases,sentences, phases and discourses, and focusing more on the last two levels.
(3) Flexible reading methods and targetedtask training enable learners to gain real reading experience in the targetlanguage, enrich their reading skills, improve their reading comprehensionability, and continuously enhance their reading effectiveness and sense ofachievement.
(4)With authentic, practical and encyclopaedic language materials and the readingrhythm of “fast pace insmall strides”, learners are guided to work on textcomprehension, understand the text content comprehensively and accurately, andimprove their ability to interpret various Chinese texts.
Suggestion
The textbook consists of 14 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours.
