Level: 成人(学汉语)
This is the Chinese Characters Volume matching the threshold-level textbook of New Practical Chinese Reader. It is designed to help adult beginners with their writing of Chinese characters.
This book consists of altogether 14 lessons, each divided into two
parts, namely Learning Chinese Characters and Writing Chinese
Characters. Each lesson teaches some basic knowledge about Chinese
characters and provides detailed analysis and interpretation for the
characters concerned. The exercises are presented in various forms, such
as recognizing characters, writing characters and guessing puzzles. At
the end of the book, there is an index to all the Chinese characters
taught in the book as well as some common radicals so as to help the
beginners lay a solid foundation for learning Chinese characters.
About the AuthorLiu
Xun is a professor at Beijing Language and Culture University, chief
editor of Chinese textbooks in Beijing Language and Cultural University
Press and member of the National HSK Advisory Committee. Mr. Liu has
successively served as a member of the Hanban Expert Advisory Committee
for Teaching Chinese as a Second Language, leader of the TCFL group in
Beijing Assessment Committee of Teaching Positions in Higher Education,
board member of World Chinese Teaching Association and consultant of
Chinese teaching for the New York State Department of Education. His
research focuses on Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, Second
Language Acquisition, teaching material development and teachers'
training, etc. He has published monographs such as Introduction to
Chinese as a Foreign Language Pedagogy, Introduction to Teaching Chinese
as a Foreign Language, Brief Introduction to Teaching Chinese as a
Second Language, An Overall View of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign
Language and a number of academic papers, and has compiled and
co-compiled TCFL textbooks such as Practical Chinese Reader (1-4),
Chinese Textbook for Children and One Hundred Lessons on Communicative
Chinese, etc. He once assumed the main responsibility in the design of
the first set of HSK and got the special government allowance awarded by
the State Council.
