Short-term Spoken Chinese is a series of
short-term intensive textbooks designed primarily to develop students’ oral
communicative competence. Suitable for short-term courses of all levels with a
teaching cycle of six weeks or less, it can also be used as a textbook for oral
skills courses in general further education programs and as a self-study
resource. The series comprises seven volumes across five proficiency levels: Threshold (Volume 1 & Volume 2), Elementary (Volume 1 & Volume 2), Pre-Intermediate, Intermediate, and Advanced. What is presented to learners now is
the 4th edition of this textbook series.
Threshold is intended for zero-based learners and beginners. It
contains 30 lessons in total. Lessons 1–5 focus on phonetics, forming a
self-contained module for optional use. Lessons 6–30 are the core texts, which
align with the most frequently used vocabulary and sentence patterns specified
in the Elementary Level 1 and Level 2 of the Grading Standards. These
lessons cover the most basic communicative tasks in daily life, study, and
other communicative activities.
Ma Jianfei is a professor and Secretary-General of the International
Confucian Association. He previously served as Vice President of Beijing
Language and Culture University(BLCU), and Secretary of the Party Committee and
Director of the Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry
of Education. His research mainly focuses on international dissemination and
management of Chinese, as well as theories and methods of international Chinese
education.
Su Yingxia is a professor and Associate Academic Dean of Hainan
International College, BLCU. She formerly held the positions of Dean of the
College of Applied Chinese Language and Director of the Center for
International Communication of Chinese Culture at BLCU. She was elected a
Distinguished Teacher of BLCU in 2012. As a Chinese language teaching expert,
she has conducted Chinese teacher training programs in many countries. Her
research mainly focuses on teaching Chinese vocabulary and grammar to non-native
speakers, and textbook compilation, with numerous publications to her name.
Zhai Yan, female, is a professor at BLCU. Her research mainly
focuses on teaching methods of Chinese as a second language, language
acquisition research, and language testing research. Professor Zhai has edited
or co-edited many influential Chinese textbooks, served as an expert for
various examinations such as the Volunteer Program of the Ministry of Education’s
Center for Language Education and Cooperation and the International Chinese
Teacher Certificate Exam, and has been invited to conduct Chinese teacher
training or give lectures in multiple countries.
1.The 4th edition has undergone
comprehensive revision and optimization to make teaching more effective for
instructors and learning more efficient for students.
2.With a focus on short-term
intensive training and communication-first principles, it efficiently develops
students’ oral communicative competence.
3.Practically oriented and
emphasizing learning for application, it carefully selects topics related to
students’ daily lives and enables them to master communicative tasks one by
one.
With
a unique code per book, it attaches great importance to the development and
improvement of textbook resources.
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