Targeted at the training of
reading skills of Chinese learners, this book is designed and compiled for the
difficulties in Chinese reading for Chinese learners and the need to improve
their reading skills, highlighting the characteristics of reading textbooks,
and helping students improve their Chinese reading skills through specific
training. It provides abundant useful learning and practice materials to
improve learners' reading skills and develop teachers' reading skills training.
Su Yingxia is Dean
and Professor of the College of Intensive Chinese Training, Beijing Language
and Culture University. She won the second prize in the Essential Teaching
Skills Competition in the Literature and History Group for Young Teachers in
Beijing, and got the title of "Beijing Language and Culture University
Prominent Teacher". Her research areas include teaching Chinese vocabulary
and grammar to non-native speakers and the compilation of Chinese textbooks.
(1) Clear positioning and distinctive characteristics. This
textbook takes reading skills training as the core, attaches importance to the
cultivation of reading comprehension skills, and basically does not design
language output exercises such as oral expressions.
(2) Abundant materials for learning and practicing. The first
and second volumes of the textbooks are the beginning stage of reading, which
focus on the learning of characters and the accumulation of vocabulary,
supplemented by sentence and paragraph reading, so as to lay a foundation for
further reading training. Starting from Volume 3, each lesson has three major
sections: “Knowledge Bank”, “Skills Training” and “Reading Practice”, and
provides the corresponding reading materials for close reading, skimming and
checking, which can fully meet the needs of language knowledge accumulation,
reading skills training and reading practice for students to improve their
Chinese reading ability.
(3) Diverse genres and themes. In order to make learners familiar
with Chinese reading materials of different genres and themes, this textbook
pays attention to the diversification in the selection of text genres and
themes. The genre includes narration, practical writing, and argumentative
writing and so on. The themes involve learning, life, nature, science and
technology, society and culture and so on. In the "Live Reading"
section, it also provides students with signboards, posters, notes, online
posts and other text materials that can be seen everywhere in daily life.
(4) Clear training
hierarchy. The style design of the textbook attaches importance to the
scientificity and hierarchy of skills training, and develops progressively from
knowledge to skill and then to practice. Reading guide is designed in the text
part, and targeted reading comprehension exercises are designed for each step,
which are convenient for teachers and students to use.