College English (New Edition) Listening and Speaking Course (1) (New Edition)

Author: Yu Sumei
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Publishing Date: 2001-07-01
Features: To meet the new requirements of college English teaching in the new era, Shanghai Foreign Language Education Press proudly launches the "College English" series of integrated teaching materials—comprising textbooks, audio cassettes, multimedia CDs, online systems, and a question bank, all fully equipped.
Authoritative and Strong Writing Team: The entire series is co-authored by experienced professors and English teaching experts from renowned institutions such as Fudan University, Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Science and Technology of China, South China University of Technology, Nanjing University, Wuhan University, Nankai University, Renmin University of China, and Sun Yat-sen University.
Comprehensive and Reasonable Curriculum Design: The series consists of four types of textbooks—comprehensive, listening and speaking, reading, and intensive reading—as well as a grammar manual. Additionally, a preparatory-level textbook is available for students with lower starting levels. Each textbook is interconnected, forming an organic whole.
Holistic Development of Comprehensive Application Skills: Each unit revolves around a theme reflecting contemporary life, while also integrating language knowledge, practical skills, learning strategies, and cross-cultural communication. This approach guides students to thoroughly acquire and master language and cultural knowledge related to each theme, along with rich language materials, and fully trains and practices their comprehensive language application skills, especially listening and speaking abilities.
Innovative and Comprehensive Integrated Support System: The series is supported by audio cassettes, multimedia teaching CDs, a question bank, and the "New Concept College English Online Teaching System." This "system" was developed under the approval of the Ministry of Education, meticulously designed and researched in accordance with the "College English Teaching Requirements," and unanimously approved by Ministry of Education expert review panels. The entire system is fully integrated, helping teachers construct new classroom teaching models and creating an autonomous and interactive learning environment for students to meet the needs of diversified, networked, and personalized English teaching.
"College English" (New Edition) Listening and Speaking Course is a textbook designed for non-English major university students in the 21st century. This course aims to enhance students' ability to understand texts at the discourse level, improve their analysis, summarization, judgment, and reasoning skills regarding listening materials, and comprehensively develop their listening and speaking abilities. During the writing process, the following five points have been carefully considered:
1. Emphasize discourse training throughout. From the beginning, students are trained to grasp the main idea first and then key points in listening, and to make it a habit.
2. Change the traditional model of providing new words and phrases for each material in textbooks.
3. Include optional materials in all exercises to facilitate differentiated instruction.
4. Provide students with diverse speaking materials. Students can engage in oral activities using the expressions provided in "Useful Expressions," "Language Focus," and "Model Dialogues."
5. Emphasize the organic integration of all parts and the horizontal connection with the comprehensive textbook.