The “New Standard Chinese Undergraduate Series” is a set of Chinese
undergraduate textbooks based on the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for
International Chinese Language Education,
adhering to the integration of “structure-function-culture” and upholding
comprehensive quality training featured “l(fā)anguage + professionalism”
throughout. Aiming at better meeting the needs of Chinese language teaching for
international students coming to China for undergraduate studies under the new
standard, this series is based on the concepts of “diversification,
three-dimensionality, innovation and intelligence”, and is mainly tailor-made
for international students coming to China for undergraduate studies in Chinese
language. Meanwhile, it can be used in relevant training courses at home and
abroad, and meet the learning needs of long-term advanced students and
self-taught learners coming to China to study Chinese.
Elementary Chinese Comprehensive Course is
a series of textbooks for elementary-level comprehensive language courses,
divided into 4 volumes. This book is Volume 4. It contains 14 lessons in total, with each lesson
consisting of several key sections including Lesson Focus, Warm-up, Text,
Vocabulary, Key Words, Grammar, Comprehensive Application, and Extended
Reading. The entire textbook is structured around linguistic structures and
guided by themes, adhering to the learner-centered compilation principle. The
textual materials are both informative and interesting, with an emphasis on
fostering cross-cultural communication competence to meet learners’ cognitive
needs. It attaches great importance to training in paragraph-level expression
and writing, and the dialogues and texts are of appropriate length and depth,
aiming to strengthen learners’ competence in Chinese discourse, and lay a solid
foundation for their Chinese learning at the intermediate and advanced stages.
Zhang Hao, the chief editor, is a
professor, doctoral supervisor, and dean of the College of International
Chinese Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University (BLCU). Having been
engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language for more than 30 years,
Professor Zhang has taught in overseas universities in the United States and
Canada for nearly 10 years, and has travelled overseas as an expert of Hanban
to conduct Chinese teacher training for many times. Her research mainly focuses
on Chinese language teaching and cultural communication studies. She has
published more than 30 papers in core journals and 6 monographs, and has
presided over and participated in 7 provincial and ministerial projects.
Professor Zhang has been awarded the Beijing Higher Education Teaching Award
and the Beijing Teachers’ Virtues Pioneer Award. As the person in charge, she
has declared and won the evaluation of national first-class undergraduate
programmes, national first-class courses, Beijing excellent nurturing team,
Beijing key first-class majors and so on.
This textbook is equipped with supporting
courseware, which can be self-accessed in the one-code-for-one-book resource
zone under the scratch-off silver coating on the back cover of the book.
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