"Chaoyue: Advancing in Chinese" covers the five
Cs--communication, cultures, comparisons, connections, and
communities--and follows three communicative modes in lesson
design: interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational. The
authors arrange their lessons around four topics intrinsically
interesting to students: the self, schooling, social customs, and
the global village, fostering a full appreciation of Chinese
culture. Each lesson contains warm-up activities, mini-dialogues,
authentic readings, conversational relays, a cultural unit,
examples of sentence patterns, and a vocabulary list. Two review
lessons are geared specifically toward synthesizing and reinforcing
the language and culture skills taught throughout the book, and
footnote glossaries assist in reading comprehension.
Written by experienced Chinese language instructors, "Chaoyue"
helps students reach the preadvanced proficiency level within two
semesters, or approximately 150 to 180 hours of course time. The
preadvanced stage is comparable to a fourth-semester college
Chinese course, or 250 hours of instruction. Unlike other language
texts, "Chaoyue" is printed in both simplified and traditional
Chinese characters, as well as the phonetic systems used in China (
"pinyin") and Taiwan ( "zhuyin fuhao"). It also includes a CD-ROM
with additional assignments and review as well as an online teacher
manual.
Lesson sections include:
-Warm-up activities that articulate the lesson's theme and
activate students' prior knowledge
-Short readings in the form of letters, e-mails, reports,
dialogues, stories, and interviews
-Dialogue practice with key vocabulary and sentence patterns
-Interactive activities such as surveys, debates, and small
group discussions
-Conversational relays that ask pairs to complete
minidialogues
-Authentic readings in the form of advertisements, Web sites,
maps, and signs, with multiple-choice review questions
-Common expressions that relate to the lesson theme
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