China Focus: Chinese Audiovisual-Speaking Course Intermediate Level (II) Personages

Book Description

China Focusis a set of comprehensive Chinese teaching materials specially designed for the Chinese audiovisual-speaking course. The video clips are excted from contemporary Chinese social hot iues, feature programs, news, sitcoms, documentaries, talk shows, interviews, entertainment programs, films and TV plays, micro films, advertits, songs, etc. Using abundant online video resources, it builds a natural-language-based claroom teaching environment, giving full play to the Chinese audiovisual-speaking course's function of g a window to the society, and promoting the integration of language learning and tural understanding.

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The titles of the intermediate level (Ⅱ) include Cartoons, ture, Variety Shows, vel, Personages, Arts, Vocation, Family, Busine, and Society.

About the Author

Wang Tao, a teacher of Beijing International Studies University, is devoted to studying Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, and focuses his research areas on Chinese language proceing and computer-based studies. He participated in the design and development of Jinshan Typing and aumed the chief responsibility of constructing the TCFL dial resources database of Beijing International Studies University and other scientific programs organized by MOE and Beijing City. He wrote a textbook entitled The Basic Computer-Based Chinese Language Applications for International Students and published a number of papers. Besides these, he won the champion in the 6th Contest of Young Teachers of Beijing International Studies University and got the first prize in the 2nd Multimedia Education Contest of Beijing.

Editorial Review

1. Authentic and natural: The textbook uses the combination of visual, listening and speaking to create a real and natural language environment, restore the most basic communication situations, and teach at a proper context and normal speaking speed, which es up for the current practical probl of the separation of listening and speaking ining in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and the distance between learning content and actual life.

2. Interactive practice: The textbook uses "seeing" as a means to promote the practice of "listening" and "speaking" skills in the form of three-dimensional input, so that language reception is faster and more accurate, and language output is more natural and smooth.The teaching material has designed rich student-centered task activities for video materials to realize the interaction between online and offline as well as the interaction between teachers and students and students in cla, and pays attention to the combination of claroom teaching and social practice to improve students' autonomous learning ability.

3. System science: The textbook constructs a systematic audio-visual teaching system covering elementary, middle and advanced levels. The grading criteria are limited from four dimensions of communication, language, ture and stegy according to the existing general language and course outline, and video materials are screened to effectively control the diffity of material selection. Each subject volume is combined with video materials for the vocabulary, sentence pattern, text framework, expreion mode involved in the in-depth targeted practice, to avoid the phenomenon of listening to the lecture simply enjoy the video and gain in language learning.

4. Flexible and open: the teaching material is updated quickly and has a wide range of audiovisual materials, and according to the partiarity of the diversified needs of students, it changes the publishing mode of a fixed subject of the textbook in the past, and the special topics are independently compiled. Teachers and students at all levels can freely combine the content and cla needs of interest, and match personalized teaching materials.At the same time, under the premise of following the basic framework of the syllabus and teaching material structure, the author and even the first-line teachers can add new and suitable sub-volume content at any time, and the teaching material will continue to upgrade and improve with the growth of time and users, and finally form an audio-visual teaching library.