This book is one of the Starting Line — A Series of “Chinese+” textbooks, which belongs to the series of general core course textbooks for international students. This textbook is designed for international students who have some basic knowledge of Chinese and are interested in learning architecture Chinese. Through the study of this textbook, students will be able to master basic industry terms and terminology, understand the expressions used in specific situations, and be able to communicate with relevant professionals generally.

Referring to the Chinese Proficiency Standards for Vocational Education and Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education and adhering to the teaching concept of “Chinese for Special Purposes”, this book increases professionalism and cross-cultural communication and pays attention to highlighting the relevance of architecture to the fields of culture, art, history, philosophy, tourism, ecology, and others on the basis of relevance, practicality, fun and scientificity.

The book consists of 15 lessons, each of which is divided into a “main text” in the form of dialogue, and a “secondary text” in the form of written language. In terms of content arrangement, it consists of three sections, the basic knowledge, the fieldwork, and the internship experience with each containing five lessons, and the selected scenes and teaching objectives of the texts in each section are consistent with the theme of that section. Furthermore, three sections are relatively independent and interconnected from theory to practice, and the idea of writing is basically consistent with the stage-by-stage cultivation programme of the five-year architecture major in undergraduate colleges and universities.

Zhang Yanhua is a professor and doctoral supervisor at the College of International Education, Shandong University. She has been engaged in teaching Chinese as a foreign language for more than 40 years, during which time she has taught at the Department of Sinology of the University of Vienna, Austria, as a government-sponsored teacher for three years, and has been dispatched as an expert by Hanban to conduct teacher training overseas for many times. Professor Zhang has presided over the “Linguistic Selection of Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century” (a project of the Social Science Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China), and the “Textbook Development and Curriculum System Research of Purpose-oriented “Chinese+”Architectural Chinese” (a key project of the Center for Language Education and Cooperation), “Research on Chinese Teacher Training Based on Chinese International Promotion Strategy” (Social Science Project of Shandong Province) and many other provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. Meanwhile, she has published a number of monographs, such as Linguistic Selection and Stylistic Changes During the Period of New Literature and nearly 40 papers, and edited textbooks such as Teaching Methodology for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language and New Step, etc.

· A specialized Chinese language textbook for international students to learn architectural Chinese and understand workplace culture.

· Create a scenario-based learning environment with content selection guided by workplace needs.

· Closely combine Chinese language knowledge and professional knowledge in the field of architecture and apply what students have learned.

· Help international students overcome language barriers and improve their professional Chinese communication skills by completing tasks.

This book is suitable for students majoring in architecture who have mastered more than 1,000 ordinary Chinese characters and have a Chinese proficiency level of HSK3 or above, practitioners in the field of architecture and Chinese enthusiasts who are interested in architecture industry. It consists of 15 lessons with one class hour for one lesson, and can be used by undergraduate five-year architecture students studying in China for one semester to learn Chinese.