Authorized by Hanban, HSK Standard Course is developed under the joint efforts of Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Chinese Testing International (CTI). With HSK test papers as its primary source, HSK Standard Course is characterized by a humorous style, familiar topics and a scientific course design. Matching the HSK test in all aspects, from the content, form to the levels, it is a series of new-type course books embodying the idea of “combining testing and teaching, and promoting learning and teaching by testing”. It is suitable for the Confucius Institutes in different countries as well as other Chinese teaching institutions and self-taught learners.
The whole series is divided into six levels matching the HSK test, with one volume for each of Levels 1-3 and two volumes for each of Levels 4-6, totaling nine volumes. With a textbook, a workbook and a teacher’s book in each volume, there are altogether 27 books. The book is illustrated with photos match the style of the test and is printed in full color. An audio CD comes with the book.
Authorized by Hanban, HSK Standard Course is developed under the joint efforts of Beijing Language and Culture University Press and Chinese Testing International (CTI). With HSK test papers as its primary source, HSK Standard Course is characterized by a humorous style, familiar topics and a scientific course design. Matching the HSK test in all aspects, from the content, form to the levels, it is a series of new-type course books embodying the idea of “combining testing and teaching, and promoting learning and teaching by testing”. It is suitable for the Confucius Institutes in different countries as well as other Chinese teaching institutions and self-taught learners.
The whole series is divided into six levels matching the HSK test, with one volume for each of Levels 1-3 and two volumes for each of Levels 4-6, totaling nine volumes. With a textbook, a workbook and a teacher’s book in each volume, there are altogether 27 books. The book is illustrated with photos match the style of the test and is printed in full color. An audio CD comes with the book.
Last week, we invited Yamin Ma and Xinying Li to give a lecture on teaching Chinese as a foreign Language in Utah and Alberta.
Teacher Ma and teacher Li shared their experiences on teaching methods and strategies and lots of Chinese language teachers attended the lecture.
During the lecture, inspiring talks given centered around topics like teaching approaches, in-classroom strategies, and curriculum implementation.
"Easy Steps to Chinese" series is designed for 5-12th grades Chinese students. This slide introduces the compilation idea of the books and provides sample lesson. Teachers and students speak highly of "Easy Steps to Chinese" series for its content and features.
The Introduction of Easy Step to Chinese (English Edition)北语社美国中小学精品教材《轻松学中文》...Shiqi Yuan
1)It is suitable for non-Chinese speakers, ranging from primary school students in Grade one to high school students in Grade 12.
2)Students can study this series from Book 1 for total beginners or choose any volume corresponding to their own level of Chinese proficiency.
3)The primary school stage focuses on cultivating students’ interest, helping them lay a solid foundation and giving them extensive exposure to the Chinese language and culture
4)The middle school stage, directed at the IB and AP Chinese tests, helps to intensify students’ integrated language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Last week, we invited Yamin Ma and Xinying Li to give a lecture on teaching Chinese as a foreign Language in Utah and Alberta.
Teacher Ma and teacher Li shared their experiences on teaching methods and strategies and lots of Chinese language teachers attended the lecture.
During the lecture, inspiring talks given centered around topics like teaching approaches, in-classroom strategies, and curriculum implementation.
"Easy Steps to Chinese" series is designed for 5-12th grades Chinese students. This slide introduces the compilation idea of the books and provides sample lesson. Teachers and students speak highly of "Easy Steps to Chinese" series for its content and features.
The Introduction of Easy Step to Chinese (English Edition)北语社美国中小学精品教材《轻松学中文》...Shiqi Yuan
1)It is suitable for non-Chinese speakers, ranging from primary school students in Grade one to high school students in Grade 12.
2)Students can study this series from Book 1 for total beginners or choose any volume corresponding to their own level of Chinese proficiency.
3)The primary school stage focuses on cultivating students’ interest, helping them lay a solid foundation and giving them extensive exposure to the Chinese language and culture
4)The middle school stage, directed at the IB and AP Chinese tests, helps to intensify students’ integrated language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing.
New Practical Chinese Reader is a series of textbooks tailored towards higher education Chinese courses. It's one of the most popular series recommended by teachers and students. It contains student's book, teacher's book, and workbook.
BLCUP is short for Beijing Language and Culture University Press, which is a department of Beijing Language and Culture University. Since publishing its first work in 1985, BLCUP now publishes over 1200 titles on Language Teaching, Chinese as a Second Language, Schoolbooks, Young Adult and Children's Books, College Textbooks.
For more than 20 years, BLCUP has been devoted to publishing only the highest quality Chinese language materials. We offer general, vocational and business Chinese courses, materials for improving grammar and vocabulary, books for CSL teachers, and Applied Linguistics books. We are committed to publishing timely, relevant, and exciting materials for use with learners of all ages and language ability levels.
Since the publication of New Practical Chinese Reader in 2002, it has been well-received by teachers and learners. For users’ convenience, in this new edition we have revised those points we found improper. In contrast to its first edition, the notes of the texts are designed next to each text to facilitate students. We have not revised the framework, especially the texts and the main language points of the textbook. Users can visit www.blcup.com or resources.blcup.com to download the traditional Chinese version of the texts for free. All the reading materials and illustrations in the workbook are updated.
This is Textbook 4 of New Practical Chinese Reader (2nd Edition). The 12 lessons in it center around a few international students, telling interesting stories about their life and friendship in China and introducing some real-life conventions concerning Chinese expression and comprehension.
An MP3 disk goes with the book, including the recording of texts, new words, key sentences and conversation practices in it.
Teaching Chinese: Fill the bucket or light the fire?Shaz Lawrence
'Fill the bucket' teaching is teacher-centered and all students learn the same content at the same time. Lighting the fire is about inspiring students to choose content, pace, and
New Concept Chinese, a series of Chinese textbooks for adults, is suitable for both self-teaching and classroom teaching. Observing the principle of “making Chinese easier to learn”, this series presents practical, concise and interesting teaching materials and employs easy, flexible and effective teaching methods so that students and teachers could learn and teach Chinese in a convenient and effective way.
The whole series includes Textbooks, Workbooks, Chinese Character Workbooks and Teacher’s Books.
This is Textbook 1 in the series, targeted at adults who have some preliminary Chinese knowledge. It teaches more than 400 words frequently used in verbal communication, over 300 Chinese characters and over 40 common sentence patterns as well as the topics foreigners are most likely to encounter in their study, life and work, such as "Professions", "Hobbies", "Food" and "Means of Transport". Upon finishing the first volume, students can achieve a Chinese proficiency of New HSK Level 2.
The design of New Concept Chinese follows three principles, namely “practical”, “easy” and “scientific”.
1. Practical
(1) Common situations: The situations selected are common in everyday life, such as ordering food, shopping, asking the way and making an invitation.
(2) Frequently used expressions: The expressions selected are frequently used in everyday life, such as those used to make an introduction, a phone call or an apology, to thank someone and to talk about the weather.
(3) Communicative activities: There is a communicative activity in the review lesson in each unit to train the students’ ability to put into practice what they have learned.
2. Easy
(1) Interesting content: The texts, being fun and humorous, displays the charm of Chinese language, characters and culture step by step.
(2) Short texts: The texts are short ones, each of which can be finished within one hour, making students feel a continuing sense of achievement constantly.
(3) Humorous cartoons: Each text is illustrated by a series of cartoons, making it much more fun to learn Chinese.
3. Linguistic theory
(1) Well-arranged layout: The new words, grammar points and Chinese characters are arranged in a scientific and reasonable way based on the regularity in learning Chinese.
(2) Step-by-step progression: Functional topics are presented progress from “greeting” to “shopping” and then to “seeing a doctor”, and Chinese characters from single-element ones to compound ones.
Repeated practice: There are altogether 20 units, each including a main lesson and a review one. The latter is a review of the key sentence patterns and words in the former, which will reappear and be reinforced repeatedly in later units too.
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1.现在的教材非常多,可是大多不符合美国语言教学的标
准,思路、方法都不对!
2. Theme太枯燥,缺少教具和教学资源,不贴近学生的
生活,老师累的要死,学生不喜欢,学了一年就放弃了!
3.教材不系统,不连贯,教学时间少,学生学了一段时
间,究竟有没有提高,说不清楚,家长和校长提出很多
的质疑!
走访过程中老师们提出的问题和困难:
43. 亚马逊网站上读者对《轻松学中文》的评价:
Amazon review of “Easy Steps to Chinese”
Fantastic!, 8 Mar 2008
An absolutely brilliant book for beginners trying to learn Chinese on their own, and
with little or no previous knowledge.
The workbook has over 150 colour pages of clear tasks and exercises to work
through. The textbook comes with an audio CD and has information -guided with
the CD- and exercises as well.
Very easy to use and beginner friendly, it explains everything and builds your
confidence in manageable bites.
Though it may appear to be aimed at a younger audience, it is also perfectly
suitable for adults trying to learn the language. It is child friendly of course, and like
I said, you do not need a teacher or Chinese speaker to learn.
I cannot speak highly enough of it, and recommend it to anyone trying to learn
Chinese.
Great!
44. Upper Canada College 李静明老师在以教师和
家长双重身份使用过《轻松学中文》后说:
“我儿子曾经把中文书往地上一摔,哭着说:‘我再也不想
学这个stupid的Chinese! So boring!’当儿子见到《轻松学中
文》时才第一次喜欢上一本中文教材并在海外坚持学完1—6
册。在HSK考试中,他每个部分都拿了满分。
现在即将成为美国康奈尔大学学生的他常常说:
‘我是我们同学中汉语最棒的。妈妈,幸亏你找到了那本好
书!’”