Advanced Japanese Course: Intermediate Listening and Reading Training

Author: (Japanese) Rieko Arai et al., translated by Huang Wenming
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Publishing Date: 2003-09-01
Features: "Advanced Japanese Course" is a brand-new Japanese intensive course series developed by Research Institute of Japan Co., Ltd. for learners with basic proficiency. It addresses the challenge faced by many learners with basic skills who struggle to find suitable intermediate and especially advanced courses to further improve their Japanese. With a brand-new teaching philosophy and textbook structure, it comprehensively develops learners' listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills. This course series consists of 6 volumes, namely 3 volumes of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course" and 3 volumes of "Advanced Japanese Advanced Course," differentiated by their functions as "Comprehensive Textbook," "Listening and Reading Training," and "Teacher's Manual." The "Comprehensive Textbook" consists of lessons and a large number of exercises related to them; "Listening and Reading Training" includes quick reading exercises and listening exercises, both of which are related to the titles of the lessons in the "Comprehensive Textbook"; and the "Teacher's Manual" includes the composition of the textbook, its features and objectives, word lists, explanations of key grammatical points in exercises, supplementary exercises, answers to quick reading questions, listening scripts, lesson translations, and appendices. This workbook is a supplementary material for the "Comprehensive Textbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course." It is composed of "(Quick Reading)" and "(Listening) I, II." Like the "Comprehensive Textbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course," this workbook also aims to cultivate and improve learners' Japanese skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The content of "(Quick Reading)" and "(Listening)" is also centered around the topics of each lesson in the "Comprehensive Textbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course," designed to deepen the understanding of each lesson's content. Additionally, the new vocabulary and grammatical points in each lesson are limited to the content that has already appeared in the "Comprehensive Textbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course." In this way, learners can use this workbook to test whether their learning abilities have improved while using it. In other words, giving learners a sense of "achievement" in foreign language learning is one of the purposes of compiling this workbook. How to use this workbook more appropriately and effectively, combined with actual classroom teaching, is explained in detail in the "How to Use This Course Effectively" section of the "Comprehensive Textbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course" and the "Supplementary Workbook" of "Advanced Japanese Intermediate Course" for your reference. It is our common wish as authors that learners who complete this course can express their opinions in Japanese.