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.
New Concept Chinese Workbook 1 is composed of 40 lessons, each including
vocabulary exercise, grammar exercise, communication exercise, character drills
and task/activity, etc. It will effectively improve students’ comprehensive
language skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing and translating.
Mr. Cui Yonghua is a
researcher in Beijing Language and Culture University. He has been engaged in
the field of Chinese teaching and research since 1981. His research focuses on
Chinese grammar, Chinese language teaching and Chinese information processing,
and his publications includeClassroom Techniques for Teaching Chinese as a
Foreign Language(as the lead author),Teaching and Research of Chinese as a
Foreign Language(a collection of academic papers) and some textbooks coauthored
with others, such asStandard Chinese Course,Learning ChineseandLearn Chinese
through Listening, Speaking and Watching. Mr. Cui has chaired and participated
in many research projects, such asRadical Standards of GB 13000.1 Character Set
for the Purpose of Information Processing, and has written a number of academic
papers, the representative ones being “Syntactic and Semantic Issues Related to
Commendatory and Derogatory Adjectives”, “An Attempt in Analyzing the Sentence Pattern ‘连……也……’” and “About the Methodology of TCFL as a Discipline”,
etc.