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Developing Chinese (3^rd 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 28volumes.

Developing Chinese (3rd Edition) Intermediate Listening Course (I) is a listening textbook in the Developing Chinese series. Itis suitable for learners who have completed Developing Chinese ElementaryListening Course (II) or equivalent elementary Chinese textbooks and havereached the entry-level of intermediate Chinese. The book contains 28 lessons,with each lesson consisting of three parts: Pre-task, While-task, andPost-task. The Pre-task section features a “Free Talk” segment to fully warm uplearners and activate their background knowledge. The While-task section guideslearners to understand the text through exercises that progress from easy todifficult. The Post-task section deepens the content and focuses on languageforms, including discussions on in-class topics or after-class surveys, as wellas consolidation exercises for the language knowledge learned in the lesson.

(1) The selected content ispractical and engaging. The text closely connects with real-life scenarios,such as travel information and the use of WeChat, helping learners exposethemselves to as many different life situations and language materials aspossible.

(2) The content progresses step bystep with interlocking links. Each lesson consists of three parts: Pre-task,While-task, and Post-task. From activating background knowledge tounderstanding the text, and then to consolidation exercises and practicalapplication, the content deepens layer by layer, ensuring the quality andeffectiveness of listening teaching.

(3) The difficulty of the texts iswell-controlled. To increase the proportion of content that learners canunderstand, the difficulty is reasonably managed in terms of text length,complexity, and the number of new words.

(4) Theexercises are strategy-oriented. Emphasis is placed on the scientificarrangement of exercises. In terms of question type selection, efforts are madeto ensure practicality and effectiveness, focusing on training learners’abilities to perceive and identify Chinese phonetics, segment speech flow, andconduct corresponding semantic association and generalization.

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.

Intermediate starters who have learnt the elementarycourses can use this book. 

The textbook consists of 28 lessons in total, and each lesson is suggested to finish in 2 class hours.